Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C

Solod: Go can be a better C

Solod (So) is a strict subset of Go that translates to regular C — with zero runtime, manual memory management, and source-level interop.

Highlights:

Go in, C out. You write regular Go code and get readable C11 as output.

Zero runtime. No garbage collection, no reference counting, no hidden allocations.

Everything is stack-allocated by default. Heap is opt-in through the standard library.

Native C interop. Call C from So and So from C — no CGO, no overhead.

Go tooling works out of the box — syntax highlighting, LSP, linting and "go test".

So supports structs, methods, interfaces, slices, multiple returns, and defer. To keep things simple, there are no channels, goroutines, closures, or generics.

So is for systems programming in C, but with Go's syntax, type safety, and tooling.

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