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+### idea
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+janet is made to interop with c, much like lua and julia. i suspect it's a quite fast language. to benchmark this, i'm implementing a mandelbrot set generator in both c, janet, and in janet using a c module. then we'll see how janet fares, learn some janet and its c api.