Carp is a programming language designed to work well for interactive and performance sensitive use cases like games, sound synthesis and visualizations.

The key features of Carp are the following:
+ Automatic and deterministic memory management (no garbage collector or VM)
+ Inferred static types for great speed and reliability
+ Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood
+ No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit
+ Straightforward integration with existing C code
+ Lisp macros, compile time scripting and a helpful REPL