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by pjmlp 1317 days ago
While being written in C++, so it can't make C++ go away in those domains.
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llvm is c++ but almost all of Julia is written in Julia. codegen and the subtyping algorithm are the two main things written in C/C++.
Indeed, that doesn't change the matter that Julia depends on C++ until the day someone bootstraps the whole toolchain.