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Re:JITs are un-ergonomic by smabie on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:35AM (#22717107)
It's not a trade-off. There's no reason why you can't have a blazing fast and expressive language that also has good C FFI. A single good programmer could make a language that was as expressive as Python (that is, not very), faster, and with a good C FFI in under 6 months.
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Re:JITs are un-ergonomic by pizlonator on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:24AM (#22718793)
You couldn’t be more wrong. Java and JS have expensive FFI because of the specific costs of synchronizing the VM entry/exit with the GC and JITs.
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Re:JITs are un-ergonomic by progval on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:52AM (#22717181)
Aren't you saying it's possible to make a perfect language with no tradeoff, and all that in just 6 months?
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Re:JITs are un-ergonomic by smabie on Sunday March 29, 2020 @04:09AM (#22717236)
No I'm saying it's easy to make a language better than Python in six months.
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Re:JITs are un-ergonomic by fnord123 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:47AM (#22717621)
Then where is it?
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