Releases: glaucuslinux/rad
Releases · glaucuslinux/rad
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rad
was rewritten in Nim, reasons include:
- more readable
- less LOC; even when more features have been added
- more productive; faster to implement new features compared to Rust
- lower system resource usage; one third of what Rust uses
- smaller executable size; one tenth (300 KB) compared to Rust (3 MB)
- can be built using existing toolchain because Nim transpiles to C; Rust is harder to bootstrap
- parsing packages is slightly faster