Programming language with deterministic automatic memory management
Inko is a statically typed programming language, aiming to make it easy to write concurrent, reliable, deterministic, and memory safe software. Memory is managed automatically, without the use of a garbage collector. Instead, Inko uses a form of single ownership and runtime reference counting, and memory management is deterministic. Inko's type system makes data race conditions impossible, without the need to use locks and similar synchronisation methods, and without the need to copy data structures when sharing them between threads.
As part of this project, we'll finish work on our upcoming native code compiler, overhaul and improve the compilation of generic types and functions, implement a type-safe C FFI, add support for cross-compilation, and expand the standard library with various networking protocols.
This project was funded through theNGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established byNLnet with financial support from the European Commission'sNext Generation Internet programme, under the aegis ofDG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.