Crowbar: the good parts of C, with a little bit extra. This is entirely a work-in-progress, and should not be relied upon to be stable in any way. # Context - [Rust is not a good C replacement](https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html) # cactus's Blog Posts - [Crowbar: Defining a good C replacement](https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/09/28/crowbar-1-defining-a-c-replacement.html) - [Crowbar: Simplifying C's type names](https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/10/13/crowbar-2-simplifying-c-type-names.html) # Additions to C For Crowbar to be "the good parts of C, with a little bit extra", we must first decide what C lacks. C has several widely known footguns, some of which are misfeatures that can simply be not supported, but some of which are insecure-by-default. As such, new features must be added to engage the safeties on these proverbial footguns. - C is generous with memory in ways that are unreliable by default. Crowbar adds [memory safety guarantees](safety.md) to make correctness the default behavior. # Syntax [Read the Syntax chapter of the spec.](syntax.md) # Semantics TODO [![Creative Commons BY-SA License](https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/80x15.png)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)