aardappel/goose
- Total stars
- 166
- Today
- +0
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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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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 5, 2026, 00:58 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- 0 stars so far today, about 2 expected by the end of the day.
- The repository is 36 days old and already has 166 stars.
- Hacker News: “Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe” — 54 points, 16 days ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 2 · October 3, 2026. Days with data: 2.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 5, 2026, 00:58 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 166
- Today
- +0 stars on 2026-10-05 (UTC), ≈ 2 by evening
- Forks
- 5
- Issues and pull requests
- 2
- Watchers
- 4
- Language
- C++
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Created
- August 30, 2026
- Last push
- October 3, 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 safe54 points, September 18, 2026
- Goose: Safer, faster and <memory than Rust/C++ for algos where flat data matters10 points, October 7, 2026
Spotted in
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- September 18, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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