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Re:Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019) by pjmlp on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:47AM (#22363559)
Mostly caused by LLVM.

Other equally expressive languages have multiple implementations, including REPLs, with Go like compilation speeds.

So Swift and Rust just need equally LLVM fat free implementations for the developer loop, leaving the LLVM backend for the blazing execution release builds.

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Re:Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019) by camgunz on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @04:26PM (#22370267)
LLVM isn't fast, but there are other slow parts of the process unique to Rust [1].

[1]: http://gistpreview.github.io/?74d799739504232991c49607d5ce74...

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