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by ArtixFox 715 days ago
Performance is overrated? What? I'm sorry but not all people are rich enough to own multiple threadrippers.

Performance is a skill, probably one of the most important skills.

Rust is a darn language, not a skill. You can have performant code in rust and in c++ and damnit even in brainfuck if you care enough.

But the reality is that there is more performance oriented code written in C++ than in rust, and that matters.
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thro1 715 days ago
Another skill, inconvinient, forbidden and forgotten ( * * * that I wish Ladybird will have * * * ): plugins - so I have A Browser For All Documents that can play every video format regardless of web video codec support or licencing etc. (with vlc, mplayer, whatever).

Neither Javascript shall be needed to see anything on the Web - if not being essential for tracking and ads - but it's you who have to pay for it with that threadrippers (and no access to source data) ? Yes, it happend people are rich enough to belive that.

Making things simple and possible is the most important skill.

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ArtixFox 714 days ago
The discussion has nothing to do with the importance of a specific skill.
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ozgrakkurt 715 days ago
You can make a handmade car as well but it is difficult
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ArtixFox 715 days ago
How does that matter??
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llama_drama 715 days ago
Check out this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862781. While it's certainly possible to write the same parallel algorithm in C++, it wasn't done in Firefox before Rust, nor has it been done in Chrome.
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ArtixFox 714 days ago
thats nice! in my first comment I did say that both are good for performance. I just find the idea of performance being irrelevant to be...ridiculous.
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thro1 714 days ago
If you can not do something it's performance of what exactly ? (of nothing, or ads)
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ArtixFox 714 days ago
But you can implement the same algorithm in c++, you can even implement it in assembly, or brainfuck! I do not care about c++ or rust or any of the language wars stuff. All I wanted to do was point out that the initial statement about disregarding performance was ridiculous and also point out that majority of the performance critical libraries are written in C++.When it comes to numerics its a mix of C++, C, asm, and fortran.

These things are still true.

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