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It is a massive accomplishment and neat tool for sure but:

1) Induces a large performance penalty

2) Introduces a GC into C code bases (higher memory requirements, performance profile changes)

3) Is x86-64 only atm I believe

An idiomatic Rust port would have none of these issues, so it would be more a stop gap measure than a long term strategy.

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