Comment by coffeeaddict1

1 year ago

Have you not read the post? Because compile times. Rust has awful compile times. If it didn't, I'm sure the Roc team would have stayed with Rust.

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greener_grass  1 year ago

Yes, I read the post.

I don't understand why the goal is not to (eventually) implement Roc in Roc, maybe with a dash of something else for the "platform".

Roc is pitched as a general purpose functional programming language with great performance.

How does a compiler not fall under this category?

  • Hasnep  1 year ago

    Roc is pitched as having great performance for a GC'd language, that is, on par with Java, Go, C# instead of Ruby, Python, JS. The Roc compiler team are looking for C, C++, Rust, Zig kind of performance. Roc will, by design, never reach that kind of speed.

    • Skinney  1 year ago

      Go's compiler is written in Go, and is known to compile very quickly. I'm not sure I understand why Roc needs to be even faster than that?