Tight C is a minimalistic systems programming language with only 10 keywords that compiles to C11 and includes features like manual memory management and C FFI interoperability.

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Show HN: Tight C, a systems language with 10 keywords ---- - an hour ago | 9 points | 0 comments - URL: https://github.com/alonsovm44/tc-lang/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231674 - Summary: Tight-C (tc-lang) is a minimalistic systems programming language created by alonsovm44 that compiles to C11. It features only ten keywords, manual memory management with alloc/free and defer, no garbage collector, no type inference, and no object-oriented programming. The language offers raw and fat pointers with built-in slicing, packed structs for predictable layout, and C FFI interoperability via extern "C". Its repository includes compiler source code, standard library modules (io, str, math, mem, conv), sample programs, and documentation. The standard library provides basic I/O, string manipulation, math functions, memory operations, and type conversions. Building the compiler requires gcc and make. Tight-C aims to strip away C's historical complexity while retaining its low-level power, providing explicit, predictable semantics that a single person can fully implement and understand.