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Re:A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics by jakobnissen on Sunday February 11, 2024 @03:04PM (#39338133)
Author here. I do know about VMs. Is it too lazy for me to write that article and not bother to install a VM with Mojo (and Rust and Julia, to benchmark in the same environment)? Maybe. If this was for my work I certainly would have felt compelled to.

On the other hand, the fact that Mojo doesn't run on Windows and most Linux distros is a point in itself. And also, would the blog post really be substantially improved if I had gotten the number of milliseconds right for the Mojo implementation on my computer? Of course not. It should be clear that the implementations are incomparable, and that a similar Julia implementation is very fast which implies that the reason the original Mojo implementation allegedly beat Rust is not because Mojo is faster. It's just a different program.

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Re:A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics by zer00eyz on Sunday February 11, 2024 @04:35PM (#39338985)
>> Is it too lazy for me to write that article and not bother to install a VM with Mojo

Yes.

Would you talk about a book you didn't read? Or a movie you didn't see? Not on any meaningful level.

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Re:A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics by kescobo on Sunday February 11, 2024 @06:09PM (#39339746)
Someone knowledgeable enough about movies can read a script and know of it's good or not without needing to see it actually produced.

Here, it's possible to read the code and know what the program does sufficient to critique it for what it is.

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Re:A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics by jdiaz97 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @05:34PM (#39339449)
That's not a very good analogy, you can understand code without having to run it.
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Re:A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics by eviks on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:33AM (#39341748)
But he did read the "book" (source code). But ignoring analogies, can you cite a specific benefit to running the benchmark when discussing parsing correctness?
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