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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I think that roc and rust are both aiming for fast memory safety, but rust is aiming to be best at mutable data and rpc best at immutable data.

I heard of someone trying to do exactly that - immutable functional programming in roc, but they gave up for the same reason you said - the whole ecosystem is working on the opposite assumption.

As far as I'm aware most of the roc platforms are currently written in rust or zig. Application-specific code is written in roc calling interface/io/effectful functions/api that the platform exposes and the platform calls into the roc code via the required interface.

I do think it's really interesting, and once they have a desktop gui app platform (which must compile for windows for me to be able to use it for work), I'll be giving it a good go. I think it's one of the most interesting new languages to arrive.