Tiny Bow is the nonprofit organization responsible for Ribbon.

Ribbon is comprised of two sibling projects, inspired by a history in game development, as well as a deep love for high performance systems, modding, formal systems, and analysis.

• A programming language striking a new balance between high level programmer experience and low level systems access, by adapting influences from the latest in academia and industry

• A realtime software engine, utilizing the insights of the Ribbon language to enable new approaches to extensibility and performance, particularly in game development

Focal points of both designs include:

• High performance
  • Zero GC
  • Composable allocation strategies
  • Tracked thread affinity
  • Expressive effect system without allocating continuations
• Embedding into other applications in the style of Lua and C#/MonoGame
  • Bindings for compiling at runtime
  • Simple glue to host applications
• Toolkit presentation
  • Deep extensibility in the style of Lisp and Terra
  • Establish strong conventions for core architecture, then get out of the way
  • Modular design, all modules exposed
  • Domain-specific support
  • Easy extension
• Strong types with full inference
  • Big static analysis benefits
  • Retain the flexibility and joy-of-programming from dynamic languages
  • Row polymorphism for structural data and procedures
  • Rich API encodings through the use of new kinds of phantom types and effect handlers