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> Over the last three years I have been doing a focussed investigation of a lot of different programming languages and styles I don't know what your invesitgat
by niccl 13d ago
> Over the last three years I have been doing a focussed investigation of a lot of different programming languages and styles
I don't know what your invesitgation covers, but a long time ago (2009) someone [0] did an interesting visual comparison of languages. sadly now it seems it's only available at archive.org [1], but I've often gone back to it, partly because it's such an elegant way of looking at some aspects of different languages.
0: http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca
1: https://web.archive.org/web/20100412073334/http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100412073334/http://blog.gmarc...
- vasvir 12d agoCool. Thanks for sharing this.
- Tarrosion 12d agoSimilar visualization from the Chapel Lang team here, which shows Julia (and Chapel) in the ideal small-but-fast corner: https://chapel-lang.org//img/clbg/clbg_summary-zoomed-out.jpg https://chapel-lang.org//img/clbg/clbg_summary-zoomed-out.jp...
- ModernMech 12d agoFound a presentation related to that chart, contains more context: https://chapel-lang.org/chapelcon/2024/chamberlain-clbg.pdf https://chapel-lang.org/chapelcon/2024/chamberlain-clbg.pdf
- jaen 12d agoPrevious discussion of this on HN (2009): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=634692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=634692