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Chuks, A New Programming Language That Outperforms Go on HTTP Throughput

Chuks, A New Programming Language That Outperforms Go on HTTP Throughput

via Dev.to WebdevChukwuemeka Igbokwe

Hi i've been building a programming language called Chuks, and it just hit v0.0.6. Here's why I think it's worth your attention. What is Chuks? Chuks bridges scripting-language simplicity with compiled-language performance. Think TypeScript's developer experience, Go's deployment model, and a runtime that's faster than both. It ships as a single binary with a VM, AOT compiler, built-in HTTP server, 4 SQL database drivers, structured concurrency, and 30+ standard library modules — all included, no packages required. import { createServer , Request , Response } from " std/http " var app = createServer () app . get ( " / " , function ( req : Request , res : Response ) { res . json ( ' {"status": "ok"} ' ) }) app . listen ( 3000 ) That's a production-grade, multi-threaded HTTP server in 8 lines. The Numbers Chuks beats Go on Fibonacci, matches it on N-Body, and is 2–5x faster than Java and Node.js across the board. It's 60–255x faster than Python. How? Chuks compiles to Go source via AOT,

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