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Yep. Rust is a compiled language with monomorphized generics. It's slow to compile, and also you'll need to carry rustc everywhere. rustc is huge.
by goldsteinq 5y ago
Yep. Rust is a compiled language with monomorphized generics. It's slow to compile, and also you'll need to carry rustc everywhere. rustc is huge.
- jhgb 5y agoOr, one could embed Chez Scheme, the compiler of which is like 800 kB in size and compiles stuff very quickly.
- goldsteinq 5y agoOr, one could embed Lua, which has simple syntax and built for that exact purpose
- jhgb 5y agoPossibly, but the dilemma of having to choose between Lua 5.4, with its portability and language features, and LuaJIT's performance isn't very pleasant. I'm sure that LuaJIT updated to 5.4 version language would be very popular, but it doesn't exist right now.