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   by persnickety 3y ago

   "Objective" means "supported by verified facts". Benchmarks are facts. I'm not seeing those in your post.
2. 212.▲
   by persnickety 3y ago

   Congrats, you defined "better". The post can't be complete without the "objectively" part though.
3. 213.▲
   by persnickety 3y ago

   > objectively better Is this some braindead new trope on HN? I'm seeing it the second time on HN today. There is and cannot be anything objective about "better" unless the choice of "better" is explicitly and una
4. 214.▲
   by persnickety 3y ago

   > Back in the NES days, video games were small enough to be developed by absolutely tiny teams. Ahem Stardew Valley. Wordle. Almost anything on itch.io. Heck, NES is still getting new games: https://limitedrungames.com/
5. 215.▲
   by persnickety 3y ago

   > For anything larger than (very) small programs, Rust requires an upfront design stage, due to ownership, that it's not required when developing in GC'ed languages. It's nearly the opposite. For larger programs in Python,