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Annotation: This article gives motivation and a brief introduction to the features of a new system programming language Jancy. The key features of the languages include: ABI-compatibility with C/C++, tailor-suited to be used as a scripting engine from C/C++ host application, automatic memory management via accurate GC, usage of LLVM as a backend, safe pointers and pointer arithmetic, one of the most comprehensive implementations of properites to date, support for RAII, const-correctness, multiple inheritance, reactive programming and many more.
Keywords: C;C++;Java;C#;D;Jancy;programming language;system programming;scripting engine;automatic memory management;accurate garbage collection;manual memory management; thread local storage;safe pointers;pointer arithmetics; RAII;multiple inheritance;const-correctness;properties;closures;reactive programming; |
