Its a neat language, very simple. Has a somewhat simple approach to codegen at compile time, which is both a boon and a curse; you can do a lot with it, and not get too deep into footgun territory, but once you hit the limits of what you can do, you’re pretty much stuck there.
The syntax and other features are very nice, and it makes rather small binaries. I’d say its comparable to Nim in this area.
Sadly, it also suffers the same problems Nim suffers: dearth of libraries.
In theory yes, but it becomes a problem of ergonomics. The transpiled library feels like a transpiled library, it doesn’t match the conventions of Nim/Zig. The best ports/wrappers/whatever typically use the C lib for all the heavy lifting and unique things, and build their own interface, that matches conventions of the calling language
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Its a neat language, very simple. Has a somewhat simple approach to codegen at compile time, which is both a boon and a curse; you can do a lot with it, and not get too deep into footgun territory, but once you hit the limits of what you can do, you’re pretty much stuck there.
The syntax and other features are very nice, and it makes rather small binaries. I’d say its comparable to Nim in this area.
Sadly, it also suffers the same problems Nim suffers: dearth of libraries.
would transpilation of C libraries help with the lack of libraries however?
In theory yes, but it becomes a problem of ergonomics. The transpiled library feels like a transpiled library, it doesn’t match the conventions of Nim/Zig. The best ports/wrappers/whatever typically use the C lib for all the heavy lifting and unique things, and build their own interface, that matches conventions of the calling language
That might change once the language stabilizes. Imagine creating a library now and the language changes breaking it.