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I would assert, rather, that we have 60 years of compiler and runtime experience, both academic and industrial.

Consequently, I would propose that there is no excuse for a public release of a commercial programming environment to be so slow unless it introduces significant novelty sufficient to render the preceding work inapplicable.



I agree. Especially if the language is named something that implies high performance.

When Golang first appeared it was quite fast. Swift is not, apparently.


Go's compilation was fast, which made developement much more pleasant. Performance of the actual compiled code was a different matter (hard to get both fast binaries and fast compilations).

However, I understand that 1.1 and 1.2 has much improved code performance.


Golang also doesn't do anything particularly interesting as a language, and didn't have to maintain interoperability with a system like Objective-C.




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