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If you are rewriting your original code in a new language and only get a 50% reduction, the new language clearly sucks.

• shurcooL 13y ago
  They are not feature equivalent, so it's hard to compare directly. That said, excluding code reuse, to me Go feels like 75%-100% of verbosity of C++ without header files. Also, I don't agree with your statement. If it were true, it would mean every language clearly sucks.
  • yohanatan 13y ago
    I think part of his point is that the mere re-write itself should save a huge chunk of that. Quite probably if you were to re-write it in the original language you could still get 25-30% decrease in code size (or more).
    • frowaway001 13y ago
      Exactly.