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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
by Hasnep 2y 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.
- greener_grass 2y agoWe 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 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.
- Skinney 2y agoGo'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?