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# Beef Programming Language
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Beef is an open source performance-oriented compiled programming language which has been built hand-in-hand with its IDE environment. The syntax and many semantics are most directly derived from C#, while attempting to retain the C ideals of bare-metal explicitness and lack of runtime surprises, with some "modern" niceties inspired by languages such as Rust, Swift, and Go. See the [Language Guide](https://www.beeflang.org/docs/language-guide/) for more details.
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Beef's primary [design goal](https://www.beeflang.org/docs/foreward/) is to provide a fluid and pleasurable development experience for high-performance real-time applications such as video games, with low-level features that make it suitable for engine development, combined with high-level ergonomics suitable for game code development.
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Beef allows for safely mixing different optimization levels on a per-type or per-method level, allowing for performance-critical code to be executed at maximum speed without affecting debuggability of the rest of the application.
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Memory management in Beef is manual, and includes first-class support for custom allocators. Care has been taken to reduce the burden of manual memory management with language ergonomics and runtime safeties – Beef can detect memory leaks in real-time, and offers guaranteed protection against use-after-free and double-deletion errors. As with most safety features in Beef, these memory safeties can be turned off in release builds for maximum performance.
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The Beef IDE supports productivity features such as autocomplete, fixits, reformatting, refactoring tools, type inspection, runtime code compilation (hot code swapping), and a built-in profiler. The IDE's general-purpose debugger is capable of debugging native applications written in any language, and is intended to be a fully-featured standalone debugger even for pure C/C++ developers who want an alternative to Visual Studio debugging.
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# Binaries and Documentation
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[Official website (beeflang.org)](https://www.beeflang.org)<br>
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[Documentation](https://www.beeflang.org/docs/)<br>
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[Stable Releases](https://github.com/beefytech/Beef/releases)<br>
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[Nightly Windows Release](http://nightly.beeflang.org/BeefSetup.exe)<br>
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# IDE Screenshots
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