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Comment by whlr

1 year ago

According to [1], they want to use a systems-level language for performance.

[1] https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#self-hosted-compiler

"The split of Rust for the compiler and Zig for the standard library has worked well so far, and there are no plans to change it."

I assume that statement will need updating.

  • At this point it feel like the are just playing with languages.

    • I mean, the language doesn't even have a version number yet. We should expect them to still be exploring the design space.