Re:Show HN: Bel
by capableweb on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:38AM
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True, but also Clojure is not the only Lisp, just one I remembered was mentioned in a actual benchmark as being fast at some things.
Nowadays you can either chose a Lisp that does compile to a single binary and doesn't require the JVM (like SBCL or something like that), or you could use Clojure but use GraalVM to get the single binary.
Anyways, I agree with your general point, Rust being in general faster. But I don't agree with the whole "Lisps are just generally slower and use more resources" thing, while it's certainly true in some conditions.
Nowadays you can either chose a Lisp that does compile to a single binary and doesn't require the JVM (like SBCL or something like that), or you could use Clojure but use GraalVM to get the single binary.
Anyways, I agree with your general point, Rust being in general faster. But I don't agree with the whole "Lisps are just generally slower and use more resources" thing, while it's certainly true in some conditions.