Intro to Roc & Innovation in Functional Programming • Richard Feldman & James Lewis
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
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Choosing Rust for a New Compiler
The speaker explains their decision-making process behind selecting Rust as the language for their Rock compiler, emphasizing speed and performance. They recount experiences with memory unsafety bugs in other languages, discussing initial hesitation and eventual comfort with Rust's features. The chapter also covers early Rust adoption, performance comparisons with other languages, learning challenges, transitioning codebases, and discussions on memory safety and multithreading.
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