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by whlr 501 days ago
According to [1], they want to use a systems-level language for performance.

[1] https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#self-hosted-compiler

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"The split of Rust for the compiler and Zig for the standard library has worked well so far, and there are no plans to change it."

I assume that statement will need updating.

At this point it feel like the are just playing with languages.
I mean, the language doesn't even have a version number yet. We should expect them to still be exploring the design space.
"Unix system programming in OCaml"

https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/ocamlunix.html