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The point is that people are clearly willing to leave magnitudes of performance on the table just so that they can use their language of choice. That's what We
by gridlockd 7y ago
The point is that people are clearly willing to leave magnitudes of performance on the table just so that they can use their language of choice.
That's what Webassembly enables today: You can use C/C++, Rust, Go and several others. Of course the ecosystem is not as mature. Languages with a big runtimes aren't good candidates for lean web apps. Performance isn't the dealbreaker though.
- hutzlibu 7y ago"people are clearly willing to leave magnitudes of performance on the table just so that they can use their language of choice" Certainly. It also makes sense, as programmers time is usually worth much more than computing time.