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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by tikhonj on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:50AM (#14553132)
It's hard to believe that a world where Ruby, Python and Node are massively popular cares about performance above expressiveness. Even Java became popular first and fast afterwards—not even talking about memory efficiency!

I'd agree that a lot of developers still over-index on performance though, probably because it's sexy and easy to measure.

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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by falcolas on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:22PM (#14553793)
> I'd agree that a lot of developers still over-index on performance though, probably because it's sexy and easy to measure.

To keep producing responsive compute programs as the complexity of those programs continues to rise while the single-core CPU performance remains steady, program performance must become more and more important.

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