Compiler Birthday: May 31st 2025

🐋 ORCat Compiler 🐱

Now Replaced by:

https://github.com/MikaSukie/Bhumi

On Windows IMPORTANT you need the clang/llvm compiler.
windows https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases
-and https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
MacOS xcode-select --install
Or use homebrew

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~> Project Status

ORCat is currently in active development stopped/frozen.
While the compiler core is functional, work is in progress:

• Standard library development

• 🎨 Language feature polish

• Runtime and performance enhancements

The syntax has been fully built and is being improved upon.
Want to join the community? (Please do 🙏)

Join the Discord!

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Memory ownership (important)

• many manual frees can be done via forget(varname) or the RAII-like autoregion {}. For libraries you may use the crumb system to limit reads and writes (optionally auto free only if both are specified.)
  
• more coming soon.

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👌 Goals

• This is a “small” but EXTREMELY ambitious compiler project.
• *(because I do not like how Rust did their safety and simplicity balance, nor their community, or governance model.),
• safety, and simplicity in a language, but unsafe if you need it to be.
• Full control by default, optional safety tools provided.

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Stay tuned for more updates!🎉🎉 And thank you for checking out ORCat. 🐋🐱