Simplification Through Addition
Ante’s goal was always to be a slightly higher level language than Rust. I always imagined Ante to fill this gap in language design between higher-level garbage collected languages like Java, Python, and Haskell, and lower level non-garbage collected languages like C, C++, and Rust. I still think there’s room there for a language which tries to manage things by default but also allows users to manually do so if needed as an optimization.