alt Hacker NewsSurprisingly yes! JavaScript's allocator and garbage collection system is quite well suited to immutable programming.
Rust is a very poor compile target as the compiler is slow and not commonly available, and the aspects of Rust that make it good for humans to write make it a poor choice for compilers to target. With humans the produced code is verified, but with a compiler the compiler is what is to be verified, so the inflexibility of Rust are largely a hindrance compared to other native compilation targets.
What lower-level language do you think aside from rust which can be more helpful for the purposes of being a compile target, nim/D both support garbage collection and non garbage collection, so would languages like these be more preferable
I really love gleam and its community and I would really really love if gleam could be more like golang though, which can help it in compiling to machine code
gleam language but with the developer experience of golang (cross portability/small binaries/fast compiled language which is fast to compile) is honestly one of my fever dreams and I would love to know if it can ever be a reality!