Lithic Programming Language

The Lithic Programming Language is (currently) interpreted, minimalist, and imperative. Lithic has (mostly) statically typed, explictly declared, fixed-width primitive type system with block-scoped shadowing, manual pointer operations, and simple semantics. Lithic is mainly used as a playground for experimenting with memory.

Lithic is a "Rust-but-less-safety-strict" language. The goal is maximal readability, operators over functions, and being a mid-level language.

Highlight Features:

• Void Pointers are the default, create typed pointers with the tag() function
• VSCode syntax highlighting
• Lightweight standard library with vector support and planned dictionary support
• Emphasis on direct control over memory with readable syntax
• heterogenous tuples
• homogeneous arrays
• heterogeneous user-defined structs
• heterogenous vector library
• Static when needed for safety, runtime when easier to write
• untyped function returns (a single function could return a string, or char, or i32, etc)
• File I/O
• Terminal I/O
• let [type] [name] = [value]

Lithic prioritizes a memory playground, simple semantics, and flexibility over strict safety rules.  

Github page: https://github.com/madcottonballs/Lithic-Prototype

Updates:

Initial release: May 28 2026

1.0.1 (Bug fix): May 30 2026