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Re:Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer by goldsteinq on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:36AM (#26903231)
Yep. Rust is a compiled language with monomorphized generics. It's slow to compile, and also you'll need to carry rustc everywhere. rustc is huge.
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Re:Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer by jhgb on Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:28PM (#26905385)
Or, one could embed Chez Scheme, the compiler of which is like 800 kB in size and compiles stuff very quickly.
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Re:Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer by goldsteinq on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:52AM (#26913321)
Or, one could embed Lua, which has simple syntax and built for that exact purpose
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Re:Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer by jhgb on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:44AM (#26913694)
Possibly, but the dilemma of having to choose between Lua 5.4, with its portability and language features, and LuaJIT's performance isn't very pleasant. I'm sure that LuaJIT updated to 5.4 version language would be very popular, but it doesn't exist right now.
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