dotbmp

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   by dotbmp 7y ago

   Yeah, the "Great minds" are still going to have a bigger lead when it comes to understanding language details, which are trivial semantic implementation concerns compared to understanding concepts. Programming itself is the boring
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   by dotbmp 7y ago

   "Near C" performance is often not good enough, and usually misleading. You can write poorly performing applications in C, and certain benchmarks may favor or disfavor certain elements of a language. Generally they're created
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   by dotbmp 7y ago

   The most critical point you brought up is in finding good developers. Reminds me of this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." In this case, small minds
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   by dotbmp 7y ago

   Odin requires writing bindings (for the moment, this will likely be automated with third-party tooling), Zig actually has full first-class C importation. In both cases the interoperability is excellent imo. I can't speak to Zig as much
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   by dotbmp 7y ago

   Odin doesn't have CUDA-like GPU interoperability, so the benefits are going to be purely client-side. If you were working in say OpenCL + C the benefits are more obvious, with CUDA you're not going to get an analogous experience.