Time to move std.experimental.checkedint to std.checkedint ?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Mar 31 12:43:18 UTC 2021


On 3/31/21 8:40 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 12:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> You would think someone would have told that to all the companies 
>>> running their services written in Ruby, JavaScript, etc.
>>
>> Funny how things work out isn't it :o).
>>
>>> Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case.
>>
>> It is. I know because I collaborated with the provisioning team at 
>> Facebook.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by this.
> 
> Do you and Facebook have a plan to forbid the entire world from running 
> Ruby, JavaScript etc. en masse on datacenters?

Using languages has to take important human factors into effect, e.g. 
Facebook could not realistically switch from PHP/Hack to C++ in the 
front end (though the notion does come up time and again). It is 
factually true that to a large server farm performance percentages 
translate into millions.


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