I agree that we can do better. But I don't think you'll ever be able to avoid some trade-off between CPU performance and ease-of-use. We might shrink the gap, b

I agree that we can do better. But I don't think you'll ever be able to avoid some trade-off between CPU performance and ease-of-use. We might shrink the gap, but there will always be a market for languages that allow easy prototyping and new developer onboarding, and those languages will always be slower than C++.