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Isn't the point of a high-level dynamic language that you shouldn't need to do any bit-fiddling to write performant code? Swift seems self-defeating.
by na85 12y ago
Isn't the point of a high-level dynamic language that you shouldn't need to do any bit-fiddling to write performant code?
Swift seems self-defeating.
- alejgoon 12y agoI think that's hardly the case. Or are javascript and python and ruby self-defeating as well?
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- danbruc 12y agoDepends on the way you look at it - on the one hand JavaScript is a terrible language, on the other hand it is (more or less) the only thing you have available in a browser.
- alayne 12y agoNo, the point is to ease application development.
- Fomite 12y agoIf you could use a high-level dynamic language to write performant code without "bit-fiddling", why would anyone write in anything else?
- reeses 12y agoThe most commonly-heard excuse is that programmers do not like all the parens.