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It's not a trade-off. There's no reason why you can't have a blazing fast and expressive language that also has good C FFI. A single good programmer could make

by smabie 7y ago

It's not a trade-off. There's no reason why you can't have a blazing fast and expressive language that also has good C FFI. A single good programmer could make a language that was as expressive as Python (that is, not very), faster, and with a good C FFI in under 6 months.

progval 7y ago
Aren't you saying it's possible to make a perfect language with no tradeoff, and all that in just 6 months?
- smabie 7y ago
  No I'm saying it's easy to make a language better than Python in six months.
  - fnord123 7y ago
    Then where is it?
pizlonator 7y ago
You couldn’t be more wrong. Java and JS have expensive FFI because of the specific costs of synchronizing the VM entry/exit with the GC and JITs.