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Clay is a language for generic programming. See http://tachyon.in/clay/ for an introduction and for precompiled binaries. This wiki is intended to publicly collect discussion about language and library features as we develop the platform.

Active development

KS is currently working on a new implementation of the Clay compiler. This new compiler is written in Clay itself, and will feature a more distinct compile time environment as well as other language changes:

• Metaclay
• Upcoming language and library changes in the Clay-in-Clay implementation

Once the new compiler is stable, we will be able to explore improvements to the language and library.

Proposed language features

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• Implicit argument conversion
• Protocols
• Extensible variant representation and dispatch
• Safer pointer type system
• Guaranteed optimizations
• Pattern blocks
• Cull keyword explosion

Libraries

• Unicode string and string encoding support