aardappel/goose
The Goose Programming Language
About the project
Goose is a systems programming language with memory managed via data stacks: no heap, no GC, no lifetime annotations, and it compiles to C. It claims to be faster and more memory-efficient than C++ and Rust while remaining memory-safe.
Useful for
- Compile a Goose program to a single C file and build it with any C compiler
- Study the samples to understand the heap-free, GC-free memory model
- Run the benchmarks to compare speed and memory use against C++ and Rust
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Why it’s trending
- 41 stars so far today, about 56 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 1 per day, so that's 56× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 19 days old and already has 125 stars.
- Hacker News: “Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe” — 52 points, 16 h ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 125
- Stars in a day
- 56
- Forks
- 3
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 2
- Language
- C++
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Created
- August 30, 2026
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe52 points, September 18, 2026
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- September 18, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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