ANOTHER new programming language!
The goal of the Zinq project is to create a new programming language with all the best parts about Rust and Go. These two fantastic languages are opposite ends of the spectrum of syntax/features, so Zinq is intended to be a more moderate middleground.
The secondary goal is for this language to be modular enough for large layers (tokens, ast, runtime, compiler) can be replaced/reused.
Over the past 5 years I have predominately used Rust and Go to build projects. I love these new languages for several reasons but have always felt there was a space between the two that needs to be filled.
I LOVE the expressive type system and control rust gives you, and of coarse the code generation via proc macros.
The only issue I see is that sometimes you want to make services fast, so typically for that use case I turn to Go.
I LOVE how simple it is to accomplish complex tasks using Go, but I feel that the syntax could be more expressive and have a few more features that exist in Rust.
A Rust inspired type system but with some nice Go features like the any interface.
An optional garbage collector so the language can be used with or without automated memory management.
A rich standard library with lots of out-of-the-box production ready features.
Not intended to be quite as feature rich as Go's, this is because I think it can deter open source ecosystem development.
Code generation feature via macros inspired by Rust, but with less restrictions to enable cross parsing of types.