[Matthias247]

> This is the kind of thing Rust should be excellent at.

I would actually think this (compilers) is a thing where Rust doesn’t have that big of an advantage. Compilers are very special. They mostly deal with some kind of tree transformation. And as soon as those trees use owned nodes (E.g. in the form of Box of Rc) things are not that far from what a speedy managed language would do. Compilers are also non realtime at all. It doesn’t really matter if there’s a GC pause or not, and whether individual allocations are quick or slow. The only thing that matters is the overall throughput/performance.

Now this statement shouldn’t mean that Rust is bad at doing compilers (enough projects tell otherwise). Only that in other domains (E.g. realtime and low level code, graphics, audio, etc) it’s advantages might be even bigger.

[girvo]

I agree - which is why I’ve kept an eye on Fastpack as a replacement for my biggest bottleneck which is bundling — which is really just a special case of a compiler in a lot of ways. OCaml is brilliant for these tasks.

https://github.com/fastpack/fastpack/blob/master/README.md