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ricardobeat on Oct 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Crystal in Production: Diploid

Modern languages like Crystal target LLVM IR, which if, I'm not mistaken, supports even more platforms than the JVM.

jerrre on Oct 28, 2017 [–]

But it would need to be recompiled right?

michaelmior on Oct 28, 2017 | [–]

Correct. But due to the separation of the front-end and back-end, the language developer doesn't have to do extra work to support different architectures.

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