Felix is a new programming language in the ML family.
Easy to Deploy: Felix is designed as a scripting language so it is as easy to use as Ruby, Python or PHP, and provides the same kind of platform independence and rapid prototyping.
Easy to read and write: Felix code is syntactically clean and provides many shortcuts for common requirements. The strongest feature here is what is left out: there are no classes and so you can't get bogged down in object oriented method spaghetti.
High performance is delivered by advanced data structures, whole program analysis with heavy inlining, and other high level optimisations. Felix then generates C++ which is then optimised at the low level by your favourite ISO C++ compiler to generate machine binaries instead of bytecode. The result is sometimes faster than hand written C and can you can always embed C directly in your Felix code if required.
Reuse C and C++ libraries: Felix provides a simple way to bind almost seamlessly to C and C++ code, so you can continue to use all your favourite libraries: compatibility is assured because Felix uses the C/C++ object model.
Program correctness is supported by a wide range of features including garbage collection for automatic storage management, strict high power static typing including overloading, parametric polymorphism, Haskell style type classes, and type constraints.
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