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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by omginternets on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @04:24PM (#14092106)
>C is generally faster, than hand-written assembly, so it doesn't make sense to write software in assembler.

That's true now. It wasn't true then. The point still stands.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by ornitorrincos on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:19PM (#14092545)
and not even true now for certain workloads, each tool for its job
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