[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 4/4/22 12:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

> Why wasn't Python 3 just another language mode in the existing compiler
> instead of being a whole different compiler ?

In a scripting language, that would have made for an extraordinarily
complicated and unmaintainable (and likely poor-performing) run-time
given that they were changing the fundamentals of how strings are stored
in a language where strings are a first-order data type.