The article surveys emerging systems programming languages in 2023, highlighting Rust's dominance with its borrow checker, manual memory management without GC, and LLVM backend. It notes the proliferation of new languages enabled by modern compiler tools like LLVM, while examining safety features and syntax across various contenders.
Background
Systems programming languages are designed for low-level software development like operating systems and embedded systems, traditionally dominated by C and C++. Recent years have seen new languages emerge focusing on memory safety and modern tooling.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Mar 23, 2026 at 01:01 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10