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by benrutter 937 days ago
I think maybe it's just semantics as long as everyone agrees where the speedup is happening (at the low level language calls).

I noticed that you're pretty hard in the "basic isn't fast, the thing it transpiles to is fast" camp, but still accidentally said "there is a version of BASIC [...] that is lightning fast" which I'm not sure you think? Highlights just how tricky it is to talk about where speed lives

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I agree with that.

There is clear distinction between original language design (an interpreter) and a project aiming to recreate a sub-standard of that language and support its legacy codebase via a transpiler.