alt Hacker NewsWhat 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!
For that sort of compilation target more flexibility is beneficial, so C, Wasm, LLVM IR, Cranelift IR etc are better than Go, Nim, and D in my opinion.
> cross portability/small binaries/fast compiled language which is fast to compile
You don't need native compilation to build fast single file executables for a program, there's ways one can achieve this with Gleam today. Bundling the BEAM into your Gleam application executable with something like Gleepack is one option, and this will produce smaller executables than Go will by default for many applications.