Hi! Long time no see. Hope you are doing well.

I'm Anton. I work on open source and write interactive technical guides.

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Since the last issue, I've been working on a programming language called Solod. It's not really a new language, since there's no new syntax to learn — it's just a strict subset of Go.

Solod translates to regular C. Unlike Go, it uses manual memory management and doesn't have a runtime. Basically, it's a more ergonomic way to write C for those of us who like Go.

Here are some highlights:

• Go in, C out. You write regular Go code and get readable C11 as output.
• Zero runtime. No garbage collection, no reference counting, no hidden allocations.
• Everything is stack-allocated by default. Heap is opt-in through the standard library.
• Native C interop. Call C from So and So from C — no CGO, no overhead.
• Go tooling works out of the box — syntax highlighting, LSP, linting and "go test".

So supports structs, methods, interfaces, slices, multiple returns, and defer. To keep things simple, there are no channels, goroutines, closures, or generics.

If you are interested — check it out!

On a related note, I wrote some blog posts about common concepts in modern systems programming languages:

• Interfaces and traits in C
• (Un)portable defer in C
• Allocators from C to Zig

That's all for now. See you in the next episode!

Anton