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Scar is a programming language designed for ease of use in terms of concurrent programming. It has a focus on simplicity and performance, making it suitable for a wide range of applications.

The full justification and rationale behind the design of Scar can be found here.

Getting Started

To get started with Scar, you can install it from the GitHub releases page

  • Extract the downloaded archive.
  • Add the scar executable to your system's PATH.
  • Verify the installation by running scar --version in your terminal.
  • The VSCode extension can be found here.

See also Installation Details for setup instructions.

Installation Details

For memory management and garbage collection, Scar uses the BDWGC, which is a concurrent mark-and-sweep garbage collector. GC is optional.

It must be installed on the host system if not running Windows, in which case it is included with the distribution by default.

First Program

parallel for i = 0 to 10:
   print "%d" | i

You will notice that when running the code, the output is not in order, as the iterations are executed concurrently.