# aardappel/goose > 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. - Magnitude: 0.7 out of 10 — Quiet - Stars: 166 total · +0 stars on 2026-10-05 (UTC), ≈ 2 by evening - Star trust: star growth looks organic - Category: Developer tools · Language: C++ · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-08-30 · Last push: 2026-10-03 - GitHub: https://github.com/aardappel/goose · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/aardappel/goose ## 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 ## Why it’s here - 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. ## Star trust Star growth looks organic. Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer. ## Numbers - Forks: 5 - Issues and pull requests: 2 - Watchers: 4 - Average over the last week: 1 per day - Usual pace: 6 per day ## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial) 2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 2, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None ## Magnitude by day, last 14 days 09-22 1.5, 09-23 1.2, 09-24 1.3, 09-25 0.4, 09-26 0.3, 09-27 0.7, 09-28 0.8, 09-29 0.2, 09-30 0.2, 10-01 0.1, 10-02 0.3, 10-03 0.4, 10-04 0.7, 10-05 0.7 ## Hacker News - Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe — 54 points, 69 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748954 - Goose: Safer, faster and