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by kaba0 1263 days ago
> the distance between the code they write and the machine code that will be executed is greater than in languages like Rust or Go.

First of all, one of those languages is not like the other (Go is closer to JS than to Rust) - second, we really can’t reasonably guess at the produced assembly, even C compilers do some insane transformations leaving the code nothing alike the original, let alone more expressive languages.