Comment by 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?
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.
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?
We already have many great GC'd functional languages at that performance level.
I first learned about Roc from this talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfy4EKwG_Y
That's a niche that is not currently filled (well, maybe MLTon) and that has me very excited! I'm sure I'm not alone here.