Rust is getting a mid level IR for speeding up compilation.http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/14/Next-year.html
There are some really neat things you can do in Rust today – if you’re willing to use the Nightly channel. For example, the regex crate comes with macros that, at compile time, turn regular expressions directly into machine code to match them.
Eating D's lunch?
