carp-lang/Carp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Carp is a statically typed Lisp programming language with deterministic memory management and no garbage collector, implemented in Haskell. It targets real-time, performance-sensitive applications such as games, sound synthesis, and visualizations, with straightforward C interop and a REPL.

Use cases

• write games in a lisp without a garbage collector
• real-time audio synthesis programming language
• statically typed functional lisp
• interactive programming with a repl and macros
• interoperate with C code from a lisp
• learn a lisp with ownership-based memory management

When to choose

• you want lisp ergonomics with C-like performance and no GC pauses
• you are building real-time software like games or audio tools
• you value explicit allocation and deterministic memory management
• you want easy integration with existing C libraries

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready language for critical projects - it is a research project
• you need a large ecosystem, package manager, or extensive libraries
• you prefer garbage-collected or dynamically typed languages
• you need broad platform or tooling support beyond major desktop OSes

Facets

cli-tool · maturity experimental

programming-language compiler interpreter programming-languages compilers windows cpp cli lisp static-typing no-gc functional-programming real-time repl ownership c-interop game-development linux macos

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