Congrats on the release. This looks like the first C and/or C++ replacement I might actually give a significant whirl. I enjoy programming in C as a hobby-grade thing, but it gets challenging organizationally fairly quickly for the sort of full applications I usually build. And I'm also a big fan of the C# "mouthfeel," so to speak. I have tried Rust, and while I'm a fan of its design goals, etc., fully wrapping my mind around the ownership/lifetime system is just not something I have the mental capacity for right now. I don't use these systems langs enough professionally (read: at all) to justify the labor cost.

This also seems pretty damn polished for it being the first time anyone publicly has gotten a look at it. I mean, a full IDE on day one is nuts.

I know Beef seems sharply tuned for game dev (another hobby of mine), but do you see Beef as being usable for general purpose systems/application development? Is there anything about it that would discourage its use for a standard desktop GUI app? And because I'm curious and haven't seen this answered elsewhere, is the Beef IDE also written in Beef, for some tasty beefy dogfood?

edit: Nevermind on that last question, I found it answered in the guide (in the affirmative). Nice!