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Turbo Pascal is small, fast and has a clean syntax. Rust fits in none of those shoes (yet, I suppose).
by 10x-dev 5y ago
Turbo Pascal is small, fast and has a clean syntax. Rust fits in none of those shoes (yet, I suppose).
- stjohnswarts 5y agoRust isn't fast? O_O . The others I can see...
- philipkglass 5y agoTurbo Pascal was famous for compiling projects quickly. The current rustc compiler is not. The output of the rustc compiler can be better optimized for run time than the output of Turbo Pascal, though.
- pjmlp 5y agoYes, the compilation speed wasn't something I had on mind when I made the remark, maybe I should have abstained to play clever. Anyway maybe when Cranelift gets more mature.
- pjmlp 5y agoIt fits on having a var : type syntax, naturally it isn't Turbo Pascal 6.0 with the Turbo Vision IDE, given 1992. I still hope that alternative backends like Cranelift will fix the compilation speed.
- jacquesm 5y agoIn fact Turbo Pascal (and later TurboC) was so fast that initially I thought there was something wrong with the compiler, that's how quick it compiled a program. CTRL-F9 and off to the races.
- pjmlp 5y agoAnd it also did a very cool thing, break on first error. No need for compiler vomit caused by a single error.