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by sdfsdufihwfuhdf 3443 days ago
I tend to group languages into machine-code, VM, and interpreted. This tend to lead to similar tradeoffs within the group...with the exceptions of Golang.

in my mind: interpreted = why would you ever use a language like this? VM = fast, safe, but going to use a lot of memory machine code = fastest, low level HW access, usually unsafe
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Tuna-Fish 3443 days ago
Also Swift and Objective-C. For some reason people think they are fast because they are compiled. Yes, they are fast so long as you only write C in them. Actually using their features is typically way slower than Java.
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hota_mazi 3443 days ago
> I tend to group languages into machine-code, VM, and interpreted.

This distinction doesn't make much sense in 2017: most languages are blends of all these things with technologies like VM's, JIT, Ahead-of-time compilation, etc...

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sdfsdufihwfuhdf 3443 days ago
Underneath they're still divisible. AoT is always native machine code. JIT/VM/Bytecode is VM, basically machine code on demand.

Then there's interpreted code which has worked the same way for forever

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