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This may be wishful thinking, but to echo Alan Kay, I have been hoping that with the stalling of Moore's law we'd start being a little more thoughtful about the
by jstewartmobile 10y ago
This may be wishful thinking, but to echo Alan Kay, I have been hoping that with the stalling of Moore's law we'd start being a little more thoughtful about the instruction set architecture (like the B5000) so that we can do safe and performant things in higher-level languages.
I like Rust. I just don't think doing things in a better C than C is going to yield as much of a payoff as these guys think it will.
- stcredzero 10y agoI think they're right, security wise.
- jstewartmobile 10y agoI remember doing all sorts of "clever" arcane things to get a smooth high frame rate for a program on my old IBM PC. Next generation, they have actual graphics cards with overlays, easy vsync, and double-buffering where the buffers can be swapped with a simple toggle instead of trying to find some way to shuffle the bytes faster. I was able to replace pages of "cleverness" with a few lines of code in the same language. These guys are very impressed with their improved hammer. It might not be the best tool for the job.