C for the modern world.

Pronounced [see-uh] (IPA: /siə/)

Sea is a general-purpose language made to allow programmers to write low-level, performant, and portable code without needing to write C.

Features:

• 100% interoperability with C. All C libraries can be cleanly used in Sea, and vice-versa too.
  • C interoperability is also completely overhead-free!
• As little ambiguity as possible (except in the pronunciation of Sea and C, whoops).
• Equally as fast as C since Sea gets transpiled to C.

Inspired By:

• C, obviously
• Odin
• V
• Cyclone, partially
• Go

Note:

Sea does not aim to replace C. That's basically impossible. What isn't impossible is to make a language that makes working with programming at the C-level just a little less tedious. That's what Sea aims for, C but a little bit more modern.

At the moment, Sea is not in a feature-complete state, however if you want to try it, you can build the compiler using cargo build --release.

To build Sea code, use sea compile --run ./path/to/input.sea (or sea c -r ./path/to/input.sea).

# The only dependency you need is Cargo/Rust

git clone https://github.com/emmathemartian/sea
cd sea
sh ./scripts/install.sh

# In one command
git clone https://github.com/emmathemartian/sea && cd sea && sh ./scripts/install.sh

# Make sure to add ~/.sea/bin/ to your $PATH

I simply enjoy writing languages! :P

For a more "real" reason: I love writing C, however I also like modern syntax and a more... usable standard library.

C's stdlib is absolutely usable, however a modern stdlib designed around modern practices is significantly more usable than a stdlib designed around code practices from the 70s.

Of note, the Sea standard library can be 100% ignored and you can use solely the C standard library if you wish. Or you can also use no standard libraries, if you so chose.

Read this! doc/developers.md

MIT License, see here for license text.