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Do developers actually need anything more than assembly? When choosing a new language (and ecosystem) in which to invest my time, I'm more likely to pick one t
by foresto 1y ago
Do developers actually need anything more than assembly?
When choosing a new language (and ecosystem) in which to invest my time, I'm more likely to pick one that's versatile than one that struggles outside of a niche. Even with a background in processes, threads, manual event loops and callbacks, I find that higher level concurrency features make my life easier in enough different situations that first-class support for them is now fairly high on my shopping list.
Do I actually need a language with something resembling coroutines? No; I got by for decades with C and C++. But I want it. It makes me more productive and helps me to keep my code simpler, both of which are valuable to me. These days, I have found myself walking away from languages for being weak in this area.
- sgt 1y agoNow imagine Zig with channels and go routines...