Seed7 - Memory Safety and Management • Thomas Mertes • 05/2026

This talk is not about C++. It is about the Seed7 programming language. The cpp usergroup vienna allowed a talk about Seed7. Properties of Seed7 are: Seed7 is an open-source general purpose programming language that can be interpreted and compiled. Seed7 is about portability , maintainability , performance and memory safety . There is an automatic memory management without a garbage collection process (which might stop the world). The templates / generics don't need syntax with angle brackets. Seed7 is an extensible programming language. The syntax and semantics of the language is not hard-coded in the compiler but defined in libraries. Seed7 checks for integer overflow . You either get the correct result or an OVERFLOW_ERROR is raised. Unlike Java Seed7 compiles to machine code ahead of time (GRAAL works ahead of time but it struggles with reflection). Unlike Java Seed7 operators can be overloaded . Unlike C, C++, Go, Zig, Odin, Nim and C3 Seed7 is a memory safe language. The standard libraries cover many application areas. Example programs are: make7 , bas7 , pv7 , tar7 , ftp7 , comanche and many more. Seed7 is based on my PHD thesis and is the result of life-long work. The project consists of more than 500k lines of manually written code, several hundred pages of documentation, a test suite to check the functionality of interpreter and compiler and much more. I give it away for free with GPL/LGPL licensing. From time to time I do talks about my project. This is my latest talk. Please let me know what you think, and consider starring the project on GitHub , thanks! submitted by /u/ThomasMertes [link] [留言]