Stream: beginners

Topic: ✔ What is the dev backend?


view this post on Zulip Lukas Juhrich (Feb 07 2026 at 22:06):

Sorry for the stupid question, but even though I try to follow the updates in this zulip, I must have missed something on this one. What is the dev backend, and what is it supposed to achieve?

view this post on Zulip Rick Hull (Feb 07 2026 at 22:53):

the dev backend, as I understand, competes with "the interpreter backend"; they are both intended to give quicker feedback on source changes than the optimized compiler. i think the dev backend is LLVM with no optimizations, or optimized for build speed rather than execution speed

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Feb 07 2026 at 23:53):

https://roc.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/306878-off-topic/topic/LLM-generated.20ASCII.20diagram/near/572051086

view this post on Zulip Notification Bot (Feb 08 2026 at 00:09):

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