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by pizlonator 405 days ago
It’s not about who writes it.

The important question is: is this a per-program recurring cost, or a per-language-implementation fixed cost.

That’s unsafe is a recurring cost.

Fil-C’s runtime is a fixed cost.

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Yeah, you're still responding to something I'm not saying, and not saying anything I'm trying to argue with.

I wrote "who" as shorthand for "the language implementation vs the individual programs."