Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Crisp, a systems language that writes the Rust underneath
Crisp is a programming language that transpiles compact .crp source to Rust, inferring types, ownership, lifetimes, and errors along the way.
Why it surfacedThe project makes a concrete promise: less Rust ceremony without inventing a second soundness boundary, since rustc still handles the emitted code. Its public v1.6.1 release, draft specification, tutorial, examples, and `reveal` tool give this more substance than a language-project landing page made of aspirations alone.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.