Optimizations and performance

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 12:16:25 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 01:46:45 UTC, Dave wrote:
>> Languages should be fast by default.
>
> This.  4,000,000,000% this.
>
> If the naïve cases are bad, they're bad and trying to pretend 
> that doesn't matter is some insidious denial.  Sure, nearly any 
> code can be optimised to be some sort of "fast", but 99% of it 
> never will be.

Performance is not the only thing to worry in a language.