[sebstefan]

If there is an intermediary language in the middle with its own runtime, does that mean that we lose everything Rust brings?

I thought this would introduce the language to choreograph separate Rust binaries into a consistent and functional distributed system but it looks more like you're writing DFIR the whole way through and not just as glue

[shadaj]

Hi, I'm one of the PhD students leading the work on Hydro!

DFIR is more of a middle-layer DSL that allows us (the high-level language developers) to re-structure your Rust code to make it more amenable to low-level optimizations like vectorization. Because DFIR operators (like map, filter, etc.) take in Rust closures, we can pass those through all the way from the high-level language to the final Rust binaries. So as a user, you never interact with DFIR.

[cess11]

DFIR is implemented in Rust, if that's what you're asking.

[sebstefan]

I can implement Lua in Rust and lose everything Rust brings when I code in Lua.