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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 19:58:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.
>

Fully agree.

Additionally there seems to be a contiguous disease when using
those languages, where one tries to micro-optimize every code
line as it gets written.


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Paulo