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		steveklabnik on Dec 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nim vs. Crystal The smallest wasm binary produced by rustc is ~110 bytes, Rust struggles with this far, far less than Go, or any language that has a significant runtime. This doesn’t mean that the rest of your reasons are invalid, of course.

RX14 on Dec 26, 2019 [–]

Hopefully wasm's gc proposals will be implemented and get LLVM support, allowing languages like Crystal to sanely support wasm.

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