D vs Go in real life, part 2. Also, Erlang.

[Walter Bright]

On 12/5/2013 7:27 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> It doesn't need to extract every ms out of the hardware as C and
> C++ developers always try to do, but to be fast enough to be able
> to fulfill the task.

Although C and C++ are capable of extracting every ms out of the hardware as far 
as any compiled language goes, the number of programmers who are actually able 
to get those results are small. Just because someone writes a program in C or 
C++ doesn't at all mean that they're getting the most out of the machine.

Reminds me of when I worked in a metal shop at Caltech fabricating parts. I'd 
produce crummy, ugly things. The resident machinist, with the same milling 
machine, would tweak it here and there and produce things of beauty. (That old 
bridgeport milling machine had more knobs, levers, and wheels than a steam 
locomotive cockpit, and none of them were labelled.)