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by comex 4190 days ago
It is not as fast as normally written C due to the dynamic typing.
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that's not necessary for the API, is it?
The API allows 'var's to be treated as dynamically typed, so sure it is. More to the point, if you tried to change it to be statically typed, it wouldn't be expressible in the same nice-looking way in C.