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Or to go one step further, phase out (outlaw) energy-inefficient programming languages like we do with high-emission cars. I'm not advocating for it, but it's

• thorncorona 4y ago
  Pointless when heavy industry utterly dwarfs computing. Might be nice for embedded devices though, but they already run C/C++...
  • tmtvl 4y ago
    Doing a good thing does not benefit from whataboutery.
• bee_rider 4y ago
  Tax carbon and let the market sort it out. Generally I’d expect less efficient languages to be more user friendly (well, a language which has neither advantage is just bad, why is anybody using it?). So, hypothetically these companies should get away with spending fewer programmer-hours on things. They won’t have to run the coffee pots, and air conditioners as late.