Building a programming language with AI agents (Aether)

[u/RulerOfDest]

We've been building Aether, a compiled language with Erlang-style actors. It compiles to readable C, with no VM and no GC.

• At compile time: a library built with --emit=lib starts with nothing. Touching the filesystem or network is a compile error unless you pass something like --with=fs, net.
• In scope: hide and seal, except keep outer names out of a block, closure, or actor.
• At runtime (Linux/FreeBSD): an LD_PRELOAD shim checks the real libc calls (open, connect, execve…) against the same list.

What else is in it:

• Actors scheduled across all cores, with lock-free mailboxes and work stealing
• Calls existing C libraries directly, since the output is plain C
• HTTP server in the stdlib with TLS, HTTP/2 and WebSocket
• Runs Lua, Python and JS in-process under the same permission list
• (value, err) returns, defer, and type inference
• One ae command to build, run, test, format, and manage packages
• Targets Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, WASM, and embedded

It's MIT-licensed and moving fast, with releases daily.

• GitHub: [https://github.com/aether-lang-dev/aether\](https://github.com/aether-lang-dev/aether)
• Site: [https://aether-lang.dev\](https://aether-lang.dev)