An experimental system designed for brevity, ergonomics and productivity.
Very much inspired by https://github.com/serenityOS/jakt, with modifications:
:: is nowhere in the language, there is only . (nowhere in Neu itself, it obviously maps to this in C++). This is acheived with types and namespaces observing PascalCase and instance names observing camelCase. This intentionally mimics Swift. The runtime has no namespace (as opposed to say AK::), therefore a lot of stuff is hidden in Detail::.
Core type and instance names are a bit more format/explicit. E.g. RawPointer, NonNullRefPointer and pointer(). Primitives mimic Swift and C# (e.g. UInt32 as opposed to i32).
There is no mut, there is only var.
You var (mutable) or let (immutable) things.
Instances are denoted with (this, ..., mutable instances with (var this, .... May be subject to change.
func is the keyword specifier for functions.
C's char and int are mapped to CChar and CInt, respectively.
Instead of literal suffixes (e.g. 0u8), there are literal casts (e.g. UInt8(0)), more like Swift.
There is no usize, instead there is UInt & Int that map to C's size_t & ssize_t, respectively, which effectively serves the same purpose. That is, platform/width specific or 'native' primitives (e.g. 32-bit or 64-bit). Primitives created at lex time using C#'s BigInteger (which itself could be a native primitive I guess).
For pattern matching, I have opted to use the word when (borrowed from C#) rather than match. Felt cute, might delete later.