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Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock” by pcwalton on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:44PM (#11347124)
Definitely, we've failed in programming language design as well. The biggest problem is that we keep sticking with C++ :)
Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock” by AKrumbach on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:28PM (#11347462)

  (defun language-choice (developer) 
    (if (> (developer-hipness developer) (developer-experience developer)) (lang-du-jour)
      (if (developer-scared-of developer 'parenthesis)
        (c-family-language)
        (lisp-family-language))))
Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock” by vanderZwan on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:21PM (#11347412)
You work in Rust, right? How would you express the above in that language?
Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock” by pcwalton on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:18PM (#11348336)
SIMD is a work in progress, but we have the foundations laid for a much more ergonomic approach: http://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/08/simd-in-rust/
Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock” by Zardoz84 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:21PM (#11348742)
Switch to DLang