#roc-lang on Hacker News

4 stories tagged roc-lang, newest first.

Screenshot of rtfeldman.com: How close can pure functional programming get to C?

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 youtube.com: Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video](youtube.com)

60 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 11 comments

YouTube video of Richard Feldman's FUNARCH'26 keynote 'Functional Mechanical Sympathy', posted by ACM SIGPLAN.

functional-programming mechanical-sympathy performance acm-sigplan

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

Screenshot of gist.github.com: Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig (gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.

roc-lang zig rust compilers

#roc-lang on Hacker News

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

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video](youtube.com)

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

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

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

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig (gist.github.com)