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It’s a great candidate for a rewrite buy why not Go, Zig, Ocaml, Haskell e. t. c.?
by citrin_ru 3y ago
It’s a great candidate for a rewrite buy why not Go, Zig, Ocaml, Haskell e. t. c.?
- zaxomi 3y agoNo matter what language they choose, someone will complain and ask "why X, why not Y or Z?"
- giraffe_lady 3y agoRight which is part of why dictating the implementation language up front as part of the bounty is a mistake. They should have put the bounty on the speedup factor they're looking for and let it sort itself out. My not-completely-naive guess is an expert optimizer can get the improvement they're looking for with only small parts or maybe even none of it rewritten in another language.
- yawboakye 3y agofamiliarity. and rust seems to be winning the war for web development tooling, at the moment. zig (by way of bun) may make a good stand if bun were to produce such tools too, as standalone. it’s a high barrier if bun has to be adopted wholesale in order to have a pretty printer.