A modern programming language built with Rust.
Fast, safe, expressive, and easy to read.

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Why Raven

• Compiled to native machine code through Cranelift, into a single static binary.
• Static typing with generics, traits, and sum types checked by an exhaustive match.
• A tracing garbage collector and Result/Option instead of null.
• Goroutines and channels that run in parallel across CPU cores (an M:N scheduler over a multi-threaded collector), with mutexes, wait groups, and select, and a C FFI for native libraries.
• A package manager (rvpm), one canonical formatter, and a VS Code extension.

Quick Example

struct User {
    name: String,
    age: Int,
}

fun greet(user: User) -> String {
    return "Hello ${user.name}, you are ${user.age}"
}

fun main() {
    let u = User { name: "Raven", age: 2 }
    print(greet(u))
}

Install

Download the installer or archive for your platform from the releases page:

• Linux: .deb, .rpm, or .tar.gz
• Windows: .msi or .zip

This installs the raven compiler and the rvpm package manager…