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When Moore's Law ends (imminently), performance and performance/watt will be harder and harder to come by. In the long term, there may be a reversal in the tre

• tachyonbeam 10y ago
  There already is a "reversal", to some extent, in that statically typed languages are making a comeback. However, the performance of dynamically typed languages has also improved a ton. It's not unrealistic to think that you could write simple JS code and get about 50% of the performance of an equivalent C function, possibly more.
  • Klathmon 10y ago
    you are already there for some admittedly contrived situations. Things like simple loops that work on typed arrays in javascript can really give C/C++ a run for their money right now.
• sbov 10y ago
  For the average programmer it ended a decade ago - most of us suck at concurrent programming.
• wcrichton 10y ago
  I doubt that easy languages will disappear. Instead, compilers will get smarter at compiling/synthesizing low-level/parallel/distributed code from high-level languages/specifications. See a lot of the recent work out of Stanford on domain specific languages with Terra [1] and its derivatives (e.g. Ebb [2]) as well as Delite [3]. [1] http://terralang.org/ http://terralang.org/ [2] http://ebblang.org/ http://ebblang.org/ [3] http://stanford-ppl.github.io/Delite/ http://stanford-ppl.github.io/Delite/
• wmccullough 10y ago
  This is a logical fallacy. More than likely, easy languages will become more performant.