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Oh heavens, busybodies are gonna ban Python and Ruby under the guise of fighting climate change.
by gojomo 6y ago
Oh heavens, busybodies are gonna ban Python and Ruby under the guise of fighting climate change.
- gameswithgo 6y agoI've been fighting to ban use of interpreted code in production because I hate slow stuff, and like money. So you can use those motivations instead if you like. If you love Python and Ruby, make compilation a first class method of running them.
- Gibbon1 6y agoWhen I looked at the results seems Swift and C# are pretty good general purpose languages. Interesting to see how bad Typescript compares to JavaScript.
- saagarjha 6y agoSadly those two are fairly tied to a specific platform (note: yes, I know they are technically cross-platform).
- gameswithgo 6y agoc# is extremely cross platform now
- Gibbon1 6y agoI think the current big deal is GUI support. Seems like they are carefully attacking the problem. If they succeed react is going to be for a world of hurt.
- gameswithgo 6y agothe performance ceiling of c# has gone up a lot since that data was collected too.
- dnautics 6y agoHow certain are you that the savings will be relevant? Are you sure your bottleneck is computation?
- higerordermap 6y agoIt often is, but nobody seems to acknowledge it.
- dnautics 6y agoYou can't just assert that without measuring.
- sk2020 6y agoIf you could save up to tens of watts by merely tripling your development costs, why wouldn’t you?