Darkmatter is not owned by a large tech monopoly, it is an indepdendent community-developed language.

Unlike C#, Darkmatter:

• Does not require a bloated and platform-exclusive .NET CLR to function.
• Is not biased toward any platform or architecture.
• Is happy to support your platform or achitecture, the more the merrier.

Unlike other languages like Java, Kotlin, C# or any interpreted langauge like Python, Darkmatter is focused on being a fast, efficient, and effective core-language. Effectively fast enough to replace your C# and C++ projects.

LLVM AoT compilation:

• Darkmatter compiler parses/tokenizes/lints source-code into an AST.
• AST is analyzed and depending on the compiler flags goes through an initial optimization stage.
• AST is then converted to LLVM-IR assembly files (.ll).
• Finally, LLVM-IR is then optimized and assembled into a binary of your choice. Whether that be a native library, native executable, or a cross-compiled binary for another platform/architecture.

JVM JIT compilation:

• Fast for debugging large projects without having to change the source-code.
• Expect 1:1 LLVM AoT to JVM JIT behavior.

Darkmatter has the leverage of a lower-level language like C while having the syntax of a high-level langauge.

Here are just a few of the components within Darkmatter's Standard Libary:

• Core – Low-level System API/ABI bindings, Console, Process.
• Types – Primitive data-types (scalars, booleans, string) and Object data-structures.
• FFI – Foreign Function Interface bindings to other languages, such as C.
• Filesystem – API bindings to the underlying file-system (if applicable).
• Network – Networking with sockets, epoll, kqueue, etc.
• Graphics – Vulkan and OpenGL bindings along with high-level abstract windowing toolkits/libraries.
• Audio – Audio bindings.