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Careful, enough comments like that might just make Zig the new Rust. Rewrite It In Zig! Zig Uber Alles! OTOH, that could at last free Rust from being the shini
by speed_spread 4y ago
Careful, enough comments like that might just make Zig the new Rust. Rewrite It In Zig! Zig Uber Alles!
OTOH, that could at last free Rust from being the shiniest kid on the block. Carry on...
- kekkidy 4y ago
- Shadonototra 4y agothat can't happen with Zig, since you can just drop your C/C++ headers and call it a day ;)
- deepstack 4y agohowever that fact that it is NOT using V8 is quite refreshing change. We need diversity in the JS eco system other than google v8. Didn't realize JavascriptCore is faster than v8.
- 3836293648 4y agoTo be fair they only said it starts faster than V8, nothing was said on runtime performance
- speed_spread 4y agoThis is the same weak argument that's being used to sell native compilation on Java. Tons of graphics showing startup time improvement, never a word on what happens after. But the only cases where this metric makes a real difference are CLI utilities and Serverless (if you know others, please tell me)
- stolsvik 4y agoThat’s not true, as far as I've read. I feel it is spelled out pretty thoroughly: Startup time and memory footprint are way lower, but peak performance is also lower: JIT outperforms static compilation due to it having more information. There are some tools to gather such information by running the program for a while, gathering stats, but JIT still outperforms.
- abraxas 4y agoCareful there. The JavaScript ecosystem is nothing if not diverse...
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- crabbygrabby 4y agoYou do realize people write rust for a reason right? Not because it's new and shiny...
- seanw444 4y agoWell obviously. It's not going to shine when it's rusty.
- speed_spread 4y ago
- speed_spread 4y ago
- macintux 4y agoI’ve found that any humor here is downvoted unless it is both very creative and very short (basically no longer than a sentence). Or maybe that’s just my criteria. Has nothing to do with the subject, and everything to do with what HN is for.
- speed_spread 4y agoTrue. I do allow myself some leeway when I get deeper in the conversation tree but it's still noise I'm adding since HN is much flatter than other forums. I really need an outlet that will fulfill my need for expression but without going full Reddit. Or maybe I just need physical colleagues and coffee break humor.