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How close can pure functional programming get to C?(rtfeldman.com)

268 points by stmonty 2 days ago | 94 comments

Richard Feldman's blog post benchmarking roc-deflate, a pure Roc DEFLATE library, against C's libdeflate, finding it under 10% slower, and describing Roc-specific optimizations.

roc-lang functional-programming deflate performance-optimization

Screenshot of rtfeldman.com: How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)

488 points by jorangreef 3 months ago | 257 comments

Richard Feldman's blog post reporting on the Roc compiler team's rewrite of 300,000 lines of Rust into Zig, which recently reached feature parity.

zig rust roc-lang compilers

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How close can pure functional programming get to C?(rtfeldman.com)

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going(rtfeldman.com)

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)