Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda
by pjmlp on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:12PM
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Let alone being amazed by compilation speeds that Turbo Pascal was already doing in MS-DOS, with a more feature rich language.
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I think the go team does deserve credit for making compilation speed a priority when other languages of the same generation have tended not to.
Sure, but lets not pretend that is something they came up with, unique to Go toolchain.
Lots of languages have fantastic compile speed, they've just decided to have their compilers do a lot more work.
You can argue that fast compilation IS a feature and that new language options should be evaluated, but it's unfair to say it's "not a priority" even for languages like Scala.
Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda
by erik_seaberg on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:32PM
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> they've just decided to have their compilers do a lot more work
This. Compiling C++ would be a lot faster if you made the developer manually expand all the templates into tedious boilerplate before starting the compiler, but it's not a good tradeoff to make.
Why are we forgetting the amount of money spent developing fast JITs for Javascript here?