Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself
by cxr on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:57AM
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> just interested in command line apps and their speed as compared to, say, TypeScript
There are no fast languages, only fast language implementations.
NodeJS/V8 is pretty fast (even faster than you probably think)—particularly if you're already doing things like making the sort of compromises where you limit yourself to writing only programs that can be expressed under the TypeScript regime. It's usually the case that it's not the NodeJS runtime that is the problem but rather the NodeJS programming style that is the source of the discomfort with "speed" that you will have experienced.
There are no fast languages, only fast language implementations.
NodeJS/V8 is pretty fast (even faster than you probably think)—particularly if you're already doing things like making the sort of compromises where you limit yourself to writing only programs that can be expressed under the TypeScript regime. It's usually the case that it's not the NodeJS runtime that is the problem but rather the NodeJS programming style that is the source of the discomfort with "speed" that you will have experienced.