Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:34:40 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:22:51 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>> Wasn't LLVM supposed to solve that, being a "virtual machine" 
>> for compilation to low level native code?
>
> May still be possible, Apple just announced that the default 
> format to submit apps for iOS will be bitcode from now on, 
> which people are speculating is some form of llvm bitcode:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/app-thinning-will-be-a-major-boon-for-8gb-and-16gb-iphones-and-ipads/
>
> Apple will then compile the bitcode for you on their servers, 
> before sending the final binary to users.

Apple is catching up with Microsoft on Windows 8.x/10 here.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native

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Paulo