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by awelxtr 1068 days ago
Does this table take into account energy used while developing/maintaining?
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Sincerely doubt it does because that's a difficult thing to measure. If you are writing a lambda function at a FAANG company you do way more than break even with a language that has a heavy compilation time. If you're fixing a comment for a hobby project that doesn't ship binaries that you and your nephew use, definitely not.

The deployment and consumption of said code matters a lot for that.