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Hardware increases of speed began to slow down 20 years ago and people are still using software that is 50x slower than the fastest possible technology. If this
by michaelmrose 5y ago
Hardware increases of speed began to slow down 20 years ago and people are still using software that is 50x slower than the fastest possible technology. If this alone was going to kill slow languages one would suppose it would have already done so.
The arguable shift that is more significant is not about hardware its hopefully about newer languages like Rust making this performance cost less in terms of safety and development time which is a more recent development.
- deviledeggs 5y agoI agree partially. But excuses for using dog slow languages, at least where I've worked, revolved around "it will be twice as fast in two years anyways" It's clear that's no longer true, which gives less excuses for using say Ruby over Java.