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title: Introduction
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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 (or even true) in any way.**
Crowbar is a language that is derived from (and, wherever possible, interoperable with) C, and aims to remove as many [footgun](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun)s and as much needless complexity from C as possible while still being familiar to C developers.
Ideally, a typical C codebase should be straightforward to rewrite in Crowbar, and any atypical C constructions not supported by Crowbar can be left as C.
# Motivation
- [Rust is not a good C replacement](https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html)
# Journal
- [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)
- [Crowbar: Turns out, language development is hard](https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/10/19/crowbar-3-this-is-tough.html)
# Comparison with C
The [comparison with C](vs-c.md) is an informal overview of the places where Crowbar and C diverge.
# Syntax
[Read the Syntax chapter of the spec.](syntax.md)
# Semantics
TODO
# Discuss
- [announcement mailing list](https://lists.sr.ht/~boringcactus/crowbar-lang-announce)
- [permanent discussion mailing list](https://lists.sr.ht/~boringcactus/crowbar-lang-devel)
- ephemeral discussions via IRC: #crowbar-lang on freenode ([join via irc](ircs://chat.freenode.net/#crowbar-lang), [join via web](https://webchat.freenode.net/#crowbar-lang))
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