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99% of programmers have no real need for massively parallel code or prioritizing paralellism over sheer ease of use and easy access to C libraries. People thin
by Daishiman 3y ago
99% of programmers have no real need for massively parallel code or prioritizing paralellism over sheer ease of use and easy access to C libraries.
People think parallelism is a huge use case. Despite the fact that a ton of CPU cycles are spent on multicore-compatible code, in practice that's just not what the vast majority of programmers spend their days working on.
- pdimitar 3y agoYour comments contain strongly opinionated assertions without proof. Everything that is a server is profiting massively off of true parallelism. Stuff written in Elixir, Golang and Rust scales much better than the same thing written in Python or Ruby. Me and many other colleagues have seen the before and after in our monitoring systems. Maybe you should instead qualify your comments with "I have carefully and deliberately stayed away from the need to do parallel programming throughout my entire career" and I feel that way your comments would have the necessary context. Otherwise you are misleading less experienced people.