Re:Nim vs. Crystal
by yellowapple on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:33PM
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> Also I wonder why the LLVM project doesn't make it relatively easier to support multiple platforms (including Windows)
LLVM's concern is the generation of machine code. That does indeed work for Windows even with Crystal; you can cross-compile a "Hello, world!" program and it'll run just fine in the Command Prompt.
The actual problem lies in the OS-specific APIs. Windows and Unix are very different operating systems with very different designs and very different feature sets. LLVM can't really do much to fix that.
LLVM's concern is the generation of machine code. That does indeed work for Windows even with Crystal; you can cross-compile a "Hello, world!" program and it'll run just fine in the Command Prompt.
The actual problem lies in the OS-specific APIs. Windows and Unix are very different operating systems with very different designs and very different feature sets. LLVM can't really do much to fix that.