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There are always trade-offs. Sometimes you care about performance (C++) and are willing to sacrifice useful features that are costly at runtime. Sometimes you c
by perfmode 10y ago
There are always trade-offs. Sometimes you care about performance (C++) and are willing to sacrifice useful features that are costly at runtime. Sometimes you care about individual developer happiness (Python) and you're willing to sacrifice performance.
There's no silver bullet.
- yoz-y 10y agoThere are no silver bullets but do we need a complete arsenal of copper ones? I think many of the new languages would be better off as libraries for the ones that already exist.
- AstralStorm 10y agoThe problem is, if you need an arsenal of bullets, C++, for all its messiness, fits the bill.
- mirekrusin 10y agoHey, Crystal is the silver bullet! :) It's extremely performant (uses llvm <<and it's optimisations>> to generate binary) and makes happy dev (even better than python imho).