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Having used this approach in a few languages, I agree that it's (sometimes) (much) better for performance, but it tends to wreak havoc on readability.

• snicker7 4y ago
  Languages and with some sort of decent metaprogramming support can alleviate this sort of issue (see Zig, Julia, Jai, etc.)
  • Yoric 4y ago
    Do you have examples? I cannot think of a good way to do that.
    • jmalicki 4y ago
      For python, you can use pandas. It even has arrow support now.
      • Yoric 4y ago
        Yeah, I need to try it. But the parent was suggesting that metaprogramming could make readability issues go away and I can't wrap my head around how it would do that.
        • rsfern 4y ago
          In Julia you can use https://juliaarrays.github.io/StructArrays.jl/stable/ https://juliaarrays.github.io/StructArrays.jl/stable/ which lets your code use the array of structs interface but internally it’s a structure of arrays
          • Yoric 4y ago
            Nice, thanks!