Programming Language Sizes
2025-03-12
TL;DR
Lua is 1,250x larger than Sector Lisp. Rust is 750,000x larger than Sector Lisp.
In the following, I show my back of the envelope calculations and include supporting size information from querying an LLM.
This is just a preliminary poke at the ideas. Further questions and directions for thought can be followed.
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