C with a death metal soundtrack

Leprosy is a programming language named after the 1988 Death album. It transpiles to C — raw systems-level power, no runtime, no garbage collector.

The entire compiler was built in ~20 minutes using Claude Sonnet. Cost: under €1.

This web server was written in Leprosy itself.

Rise from the grave

# Requires Go 1.21+
git clone <repo>
cd leprosy
go build -o lepc ./cmd/lepc
./lepc hello.lep -o hello
./hello

-- hello.lep
rip main() void {
    unleash x = 42
    scream("Leprosy lives")
    scream(x)
}

The vocabulary of death