- I've had lots of issues getting this thing installed, curiously their website provides snapshots for all kinds of UNIX systems (including an italian supercomputer and obviously, Cray products), but no Linux whatsoever (they claim on Gitter that Debian is supported though) - The compiler is slow as molasses. Compiling the simple hello world example takes 5(!) seconds. This test suite takes 10 seconds. - If I instruct it to keep the generated C code with `--savec `, I get 1.5M of C files for the same hello world example. That might explain compilation times, it's going to take some time for `gcc` to grind through all of it... - The compiler is smart enough to figure out what modules to compile itself and not leaving around any intermediate files. In other words, it doesn't lend itself well to Makefiles or incremental compilation. - The `void` type isn't what you think it is. Anything `void` is removed from the generated code which allows conditional compilation much like you'd do with `#ifdef`. - GC isn't implemented yet. There is manual deletion of allocated resources, as well as community-provided reference counting types. - Lambdas are implemented, but closures are explicitly forbidden. That's far from the only restriction, but the most crucial one for me. - The compiler infers types if possible which is very useful - Newly created arrays have a size of 1 or greater. You can use `ary.clear()` afterwards to reset their size. - Domains are a quite weird concept, but probably necessary to allow for distributed processing of a collection. The weirdest part of it so far is dictionaries where the keys are linked to the values, yet exist in separate variables... - FFI is a tad weird as it supports constant C strings only and `NULL` cannot be represented, so you have to use a pointer to char and create a string from it. It cannot represent freeable strings either, instead you mark the C string you create the string from as not to be copied. - No append mode in their IO module, even though there is a mapping to append mode in the sources...