Goose is a new memory-safe systems programming language that eliminates the heap entirely, using compiler-managed data stacks instead of allocation, garbage collection, or lifetime annotations. Benchmarks claim it outperforms idiomatic C++ by 3.3x and safe Rust by 1.12x while using significantly less memory, with nested structures stored contiguously without pointers.
Background
Goose represents a novel approach to systems programming by removing the heap entirely, addressing long-standing issues with manual memory management and GC overhead. This aligns with ongoing research into zero-cost abstractions and memory-safe alternatives to C/C++.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 26, 2026 at 04:10 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10