alt Hacker NewsTo be fair, it’s misleading to group Scala (or any JVM language), with other “high-level languages.”
The JVM is extremely mature and performant, and JVM-based languages often run 5x (or more) than non-JVM high-level languages like Python or Ruby.
To be fair, it’s misleading to group Scala (or any JVM language), with other “high-level languages.”
The JVM is extremely mature and performant, and JVM-based languages often run 5x (or more) than non-JVM high-level languages like Python or Ruby.
That doesn’t follow. Scala is a high level language and compiler above the JVM. The bug here is a high level one:
> Turns out there was indeed a subtle bug making chained evaluations inefficient in Scala 3
I’m comparing with Haskell, Scheme, or even SQl which all promise to compile efficient code from high level descriptions.