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by tobz1000
1285 days ago
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Compilation can be very intensive, and it's detrimental to a developer's workflow if they must wait for long recompiles. Rust was originally written in OCaml before being self-hosted, and it wouldn't be as fast (or would be even slower ;) ) today if it was still OCaml. And remember, low-level =/= poor abstractions. I think there are several novel abstractions available in Zig which the compiler devs probably want to make use of themselves. |
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They might have good language abstractions, but manual memory management is simply an orthogonal implementation detail to solving a problem — dealing with that is simply more work and more leaky abstractions.