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Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by singpolyma3 on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:00AM (#48168146)
Could choose a similar weight, similar speed, equal or more typesafe language though :)
Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by galangalalgol on Sunday May 17, 2026 @10:47AM (#48169418)
Ada? Other than c and c++ everything else benchmarks 2-4 times slower than rust for compute bound tasks, even after jit warmup. I'm up for ada though, especially with an llm where I don't have to type all that verbose syntax.
Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by singpolyma3 on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:01AM (#48169548)
OCaml? Haskell? Idris?

Lots of options with no jit or warmup

Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by galangalalgol on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:44AM (#48169943)
I'm not against jit or warmup, just saying it doesn't actually catch up for compute bound tasks in my experience. Haskell and ocaml would definitely be next on my list, but they do take a very good hit in performance over ada or rust. I wouldn't say they were similar in performance, certainly. There is a pretty big cliff between the systems languages and everything else performance-wise. For a lot of things it doesn't matter I know, but none of those things are domains I've ever worked in. I've never had a project in my professional career where we didn't descope requirements to fit the available compute.