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I'm actually pretty amazed at what the Javascript VM people have done in the past decade. It's way more than I ever expected. As far as the carbon footprint, w

I'm actually pretty amazed at what the Javascript VM people have done in the past decade. It's way more than I ever expected. As far as the carbon footprint, well, yeah, it depends. At Google I remember a friend talking about how he cringed whenever he added more code to the pipeline that ingests the entire internet. He said that he wondered how much extra carbon was release into the atmosphere just because of his stupid code. As for numpy, we are seeing that loops are stupid and Iverson and APL were right. :-)

bjz_ 7y ago
> At Google I remember a friend talking about how he cringed whenever he added more code to the pipeline that ingests the entire internet. He said that he wondered how much extra carbon was release into the atmosphere just because of his stupid code. I wish companies were under more financial pressure to actually track and mitigate this. (hint hint, carbon taxes)
- SamReidHughes 7y ago
  If you run your data centers where electricity is cheap, you're using electricity but not emitting very much carbon dioxide.