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Nativity is the language and compiler for Birth Software. Nativity is the language and compiler for Birth Software.
# Design goals # Design decisions and goals
Nativity is aimed to be reliable, fast and secure. It's designed with performance in mind. A few goals: Nativity is aimed to be reliable, fast and secure. It's designed with performance in mind. A few goals:
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- Statically-linked binaries when possible. - Statically-linked binaries when possible.
- Allocation in the standard library is based on virtual memory based arenas. - Allocation in the standard library is based on virtual memory based arenas.
- 64-bit platform focus - 64-bit platform focus
- Types are not values
- Uniforming runtime and comptime evaluation is inherently slow. Specialized solutions must be proposed in order to guarantee efficiency.
# Initial constraints # Initial constraints
@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ fn [cc(.c)] main [export] () s32 {
// With pointers // With pointers
>pointer: ?*u32 = a.&; >pointer: ?*u32 = a.&;
if (?a) { if (?pointer) {
// Here the variable is shadowed, the attribute "non-null" is added to the backend to the pointer variable // Here the variable is shadowed, the attribute "non-null" is added to the backend to the pointer variable
} else { } else {
// Here the pointer is null // Here the pointer is null