Language Speed Debates
Cluster focuses on debates about whether programming languages are inherently fast or slow, emphasizing that performance depends on implementations, algorithms, and coding practices rather than the language itself, often challenging comparisons to C/C++.
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But there are no fast languages, only fast implementations...
Depends what you're doing with it... You can make any language you want slower than another language by using it badly
No, "it's fast because it's C" doesn't hold. You can write slow code in any language.
when will people stop comparing languages based on their runtime speeds?
"and it ran as fast as C++" (emphasis added)
You shouldnt need to make noticable compromises to get performance in any reasonably efficient language/tooling
The "high performance" claim is misleading, when there are languages like C.
Is every language claiming to be faster than C now?
The speed of a language depends on it's implementation, not on the language itself
could have made a language faster than C in 0.1x the amount of time