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Homepage for Goose, a memory-safe systems programming language with no heap, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations that compiles to C.

What HN thinks

A flock of curious engineers asking how to fit a string into a stack, while a few honk loudly about AI prose.

How do dynamic sizes work?
Many commenters probed how stack-only memory handles arbitrarily sized, randomly deleted values like string hash tables, JSON or LRU caches. Several suspected it ends up as hand-rolled allocators or arena indices, and the author pointed to pools, fixed-capacity arrays and trees stored in a single array.
Promising stack-based memory model
Others found the scope-exit-frees model intuitive and efficient. They compared it to Apache request pools, ECS and arenas, and praised the samples and documentation.
AI-generated slop skepticism
Some dismissed the project because the code, README and benchmarks look AI-written, and they asked for prose without AI-isms.

Consensus: Most agree the design is interesting and works best when data with similar lifetimes is grouped together. How ergonomic it is for arbitrary dynamic allocation is still an open question.

Recommended in the comments

Lobster (tool): Commenters pointed to it as the author's earlier, well-regarded language.
Embassy ↗ (library): Mentioned as an example of the no-heap approach working well on MCUs.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 1 day ago.

Points: 155
Comments: 54
Best rank: #2
Posted: 2026-10-24 by andsoitis
Category: Programming

goose-language programming-languages memory-safety systems-programming compilers rust cpp

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