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he C backend, then zip up all the C files to make the release. Then to bootstrap from it, I just do (effectively) gcc *.c -o build/neat_bootstrap. edit: Ah, here it is: https://github.com/Neat-Lang/neat/blob/v0.1.6/bootstrap.sh

ke than a C-like, but it only breaks C syntax in areas where I think C straight up made the wrong call, like the inside-out type syntax. Memory management uses automatic ref counting, with some optimizations to keep number of inc/dec manageable. The thing I'm most proud of is the full-powered macro system, which is really more of a compile-time compiler plugin system. Here's an example of using the C import macro to bind to a C library: https://github.com/Neat-Lang/neat/blob/master/demos/glfw.nt Another good example of a macro would be listcomprehensions: https://github.com/Neat-Lang/neat/blob/master/src/neat/macro... You can tell it's just compiler code that happens to be loaded at project compiletime. You can see listcomprehensions at work in the sparkline demo: https://github.com/Neat-Lang/sparkline/blob/master/src/spark... `compiler.$expr xxx` is itself a macro, that parses an expression `xxx` and returns an expression that creates a syntax tree that, when compiled, is equivalent to having written `xxx`. It's effectively the opposite of `eval`. In that expression, `$identifier` is expanded to a variable reference to "identifier". So `ASTSymbol test = compiler.$expr $where && $test;` is equivalent to `ASTSymbol test = new ASTBinary("&&", where, test)`. (This shows its worth as expressions become more expansive.) All in all, this lets you write `bool b = [all a == 5 for a in array]`, and it's exactly equivalent to a plain for loop. You can see the exact for loop at line 103 in that file. `({ })` is stolen from gcc; google "statement expression". The one thing I'm still blocking on is hashmaps, once that's in I'll make a proper announcement post. And, of course, documentation. :-)