Carp is a programming language designed to work well for interactive and performance sensitive use cases like games, sound synthesis and visualizations.

The key features of Carp are the following:

Automatic and deterministic memory management (no garbage collector or VM) Inferred static types for great speed and reliability Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit Straightforward integration with existing C code Lisp macros, compile time scripting and a helpful REPL