Born out of frustration with current tools for digital game making — and a love for the Lisp family of languages — I invented Carp. It’s a programming language designed with game making in mind, focused on speed and predictable performance. Also, it has the kind of tooling and syntax that I prefer. Hopefully it will make me and others feel a little bit better while programming.

The first version of the compiler was made 2015 - 2016, attracting a fair bit of attention in the programming community. In the spring of 2017 I rebooted the project, rewriting it in Haskell (it used to be C). The project is open source and available for your viewing at Github. There you can also find documentation explaining how to use the language, and a link to our chat group on gitter.im where you can ask questions and talk to the people involved.