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Before the language becomes a performance bottleneck there is so much stuff to consider that it quickly becomes clear how the choice of language doesn't really
by chpmrc 7y ago
Before the language becomes a performance bottleneck there is so much stuff to consider that it quickly becomes clear how the choice of language doesn't really make a difference, except in special cases such as embedded systems.
- pjmlp 7y agoA language that requires C for anything regarding performance is only useful for scripting and learning to program.
- mhuffman 7y agoI mean, what do you think the Java VM is written in?
- threeseed 7y agoIt's completely irrelevant. Because as a developer I am exclusively writing in a language that sits on top of the JVM. I don't ever need to write in the language that the JVM itself written in.
- nosianu 7y agoYou understand the the language your platform is written in and the language you as a developer write programs for the platform in are two completely different things?
- pjmlp 7y agoAOT compiled Java, JITed Java, C++, depending on which JVM we are talking about.
- paganel 7y agoYou bash “scripting” like it is something bad. Granted, as a lowly Python programmer for almost 15 years now I’ve mostly seen myself as a guy who takes some text/data from place A and makes sure is rendered/delivered to some other place called B, in some cases with some transformations applied to that piece of text/data, i.e. more or less a “script programmer”. I did try at some point to learn some Lisp, which I had heard was better at moving and working with data in the way I described, but I either lacked the will to learn it or maybe that I wasn’t smart enough to make the transition, so I’m stuck with working on my data with Python.
- polotics 7y ago... and serving Instagram to the world...