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Have Native Languages Returned? (TL;DR: Yes)
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Summary
In this panel users of C++, Rust, and Go talk about how they picked their language of choice, what problems remain, what was impossible to do with VM-based languages and much more.
Bio
Paul Dix is the CEO of InfluxDB. Werner Schuster focuses on languages, VMs and compilers, HTML5/Javascript, and recently more on performance optimization. Todd Lipcon is a software engineer at Cloudera.
About the conference
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Feb 07, 2016
Community comments
Using C++... just, reimplementing everything and keeping mental models
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Re: Using C++... just, reimplementing everything and keeping mental models
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Using C++... just, reimplementing everything and keeping mental models
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As Paul Graham wrote: "If you try to solve a hard problem, the question is not whether you will use a powerful enough language, but whether you will (a) use a powerful language, (b) write a de facto interpreter for one, or (c) yourself become a human compiler for one."
The C++ guy in this panel sounds like he's happy being a human compiler to get what the Rust and Go guys mention is provided by their languages.
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(Well, to be fair, he does say at the beginning that if he had to start today his project, he might have chosen another language)