Flock an amalgamation of Flow and Fork, is a Systems programming language, designed to be easy to read, easy to write, and performant.
- No Garbage collector, With support for object graphs (over object trees) inspired by rust
- Flow executions, i.e. Parallelisation without Threads. inspired by projectreactor.io
- A clear distinction between what I am (Structs) and what I do (Traits)
- Object Orientated
- Functional
- Strongly Typed
- Symbol minimalist (i.e. keeping down on the number of different symbols)
- Clearly Structured, (i.e. not perl)
- Pointer free (no
&**mayvar) - Convention orientated, (i.e. if most programming languages have a convention, follow that convention)
- Operator overloading, whilst retaining clarity (tough one)
- no lifetime semantics,
- Machine sympathetic, (Smart resource management)
- Fully compiled
- Support for Dependency Injection
- Support for Aspect Orientated Programming
- Support for Testing (including spec by example, such as cucumber)
- Null free
- Extensible