Goals of Bender.

• [ ] Be Syntax compatible with Clojure.
• [ ] Compatible with clojure.core.
• [ ] Nimble startup times No JIT by default.
• [ ] Should be as fast or faster than Lua.
• [ ] To be Faster than Lua VM without JIT.
• [ ] Hinley Millner style Type Inference.
• [ ] Immutable Datastructures.
• [ ] Tail Call Optimisation.
• [ ] Lazy/Delayed Evaluation.
• [ ] Optional Types through meta data.
• [ ] Can be Compiled to Native Code.
• [ ] Interpreted while Development.
• [ ] Be linked with C/C++ Libs.
• [ ] Use efficient GC.
• [ ] Designed with Game Development in Mind.
• [ ] Cross Platform on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, AppleTV, and Switch.
• [ ] Should use the smallest JIT available. AsmJIT, GccJit.
• [ ] To be faster than Chez by a Factor of 3 Atleast.
• [ ] Ease of use over dogma and tradition.
• [ ] Profiler and Database for type detection.
• [ ] Favour easier funtion names over Std Lib Dogma.
• [ ] Ease of Use above Performance and Performance above backward compatibility.
• [ ] Erlang Styled concurrency.
• [ ] Use ML to detect types.
• [ ] Automatic and deterministic memory management (Optional garbage collector and VM)
• [ ] Inferred static types for speed.
• [ ] Rust Styled Optional Borrowed Ownership.
• [ ] Logic Progrming Features compatible with Shen https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos.html
• [ ] No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit
• [ ] Straightforward integration with existing C code
• [ ] Lisp macros, compile time scripting and a helpful REPL
• [ ] Threads and atomic references.
• [ ] Asynchronous programming (i.e. promises & futures).
• [ ] Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).
• [ ] Software-Transactional Memory (STM).
• [ ] The actor model.
• [ ] Multi Platform (JVM, CLR, Neko VM)