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by ori_b 4524 days ago
If you're programming in Rust, and you care about things working, you probably want to stay with Rust at this point.

I'd love to get people actually playing with Myrddin, but remember the joke I made on the page about broken compilers, miniscule standard libraries, and debugging in assembly? That wasn't a joke.

Play, but unless you're sure of what you're doing, don't depend on it actually working. Not yet, at least, although it's getting there.

As far as performance goes -- I've put zero effort into optimizing, and depending on the style and features you use, you tend to get between 2x (for purely numerical code) and 8x (for heavily union-using code with value semantics) overhead compared to C right now. Some basic optimizations should bring that down really quickly.

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I think most people got the "experimental, not mature" bit. Kudos for shipping an entire language, especially with the slew of features it has.