Ring programs, on ground you control. Ring++ is a register VM and a compiler from Ring source to its bytecode, in one 5 MB Zig binary. It runs the Ring code that exists -- the 300,000 lines of Softanza and the applications built on them -- with no Ring underneath, on Windows and Linux. It is the bridge to Haro, the language that comes next.
| measured 2026-10-17 | |
|---|---|
| Softanza's checks that pass on Ring and pass on Ring++ | 12,924 of 13,008 (Windows), 12,170 of 12,255 (Linux) -- the rest, named |
| Ring programs compared with Ring, line by line | 5,112 |
| faster than Ring 1.27 on the same programs | 4x to 2,030x (the table) |
| what it needs | one binary: no Ring, no C compiler |
Why Ring++ left Ring -- the technical and the governance reasons, with the record behind each. Ring's issues, solved -- every issue run on Ring 1.27 and on Ring++, side by side. Start here -- the package and the first program.
With Zig 0.15.2 and nothing else:
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -j2 -Dmi=true -Drc=true -Dtyped=true -Dcow=true
zig-out/bin/rnxc program.ring
python bench/gate.py is the gate every change passes: the vendored trees' hashes, A/B against the oracle, the Softanza census,
156 exec probes in two build modes, the checker, the native interface, the formatter and the graph.
src/ the VM (main.zig), the compiler (compile.zig), the CLI (rnxc.zig), the checker, the native interface
bench/ every measurement and every gate: probes in bench/exec, the clocks (why432.py), the gate (gate.py)
vendor/ Ring 1.27's VM and standard library (the ORACLE, never shipped), tree-sitter and its Ring grammar, mimalloc
docs/ FINDINGS.md (what Ring's VM does, measured), CORRECTIONS.md (every place Ring++ differs, decided)
site/ the website
Ring is the work of Mahmoud Fayed, under the MIT licence; its 1.27 VM and standard library are vendored here unchanged, as the oracle Ring++ is measured against. The Ring grammar Ring++ parses with is Youssef Saeed's. mimalloc is Microsoft's.
The library era of Ring++ (August 2026: a library and a CLI that ran inside Ring) is archived, read-only, at mayouni/ringpp-old.
Ring++ © 2026 Mansour Ayouni, under the MIT licence -- a Softanza project, towards Haro.