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I first learned about ATS when it came out on the top (2nd, 3rd?) of the benchmark game. That was years ago. Did it gain any real world traction in the meantime
by stewbrew 8y ago
I first learned about ATS when it came out on the top (2nd, 3rd?) of the benchmark game. That was years ago. Did it gain any real world traction in the meantime? It seems ATS was removed from the benchmark game since then.
- gridlockd 8y agoSame here. I was impressed with its speed, but then I found that the reason ATS is so fast was that you basically just write C code in it to get it be fast. It's pointless to benchmark as a language of its own.
- vmchale 8y agoIt has a backend via C and thus GCC, but it enables some things that plain C doesn't due to making certain things easier, plus the ABI for functional programming stuff matches up very cleanly with the hyper-optimized stuff.
- vmchale 8y ago> Did it gain any real world traction in the meantime? Still a research language, but pretty fun.