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> JavaScript engines, to use but one example, are consistently getting faster. And now people write basic user-space tools in Javascript instead of C, with a b
by josteink 10y ago
> JavaScript engines, to use but one example, are consistently getting faster.
And now people write basic user-space tools in Javascript instead of C, with a basic 100 libraries bolted on as dependencies, where only 0.1% of the code is ever used, but you'll also need to boot the JS runtime before any of this code even runs.
Guess which tool is faster. The C one or the JS one?
I'm not saying "Do everything in C" (I'm rather in the opposite camp), but he does have a quite valid argument there.