alt Hacker NewsAnother hot take: maybe we will see a spike of compiles languages like Go, Rust and WASM, over Python, Ruby, and Node.
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we can use AI to rewrite everything in Rust
this way all the RAM that AI data centers scoop up will be used to lessen demand for RAM that those same datacenters created
net-zero RAM!
Yet another hot take: we won’t see any of that. Instead users will simply get used to waiting.
I actually compared WASM to Javascript for a particular integer-math-heavy task. For a single run, Javascript beat out WASM because WASM had a lot more setup time. After running both 1000 times, they were almost equal in runtime.
Yes, even though the Javascript was written using Doubles and the WASM was written using 64 bit ints. It just means that it's possible to write optimized Javascript (mainly by reducing object allocations, reuse objects instead)
To be fair, we could also just optimize the runtime engines for interpreted languages.
I do enjoy golang, but Rust gives me nightmares. I make my living in higher level languages.
When I started learning to program JavaScript was just starting to gain popularity outside of the browser. It was the first language I could actually grasp, and I largely think it for giving me a career.
No more evictions for me!
The only real downside to JavaScript, you know being used as a tool for native apps with stuff like electron is it eats ram. Everything needs to a ship a full chrome binary.
But if we go back to native applications, we don't get things like quality Linux ports. If you would have told me 15 years ago that Microsoft would create the most popular IDE on Linux I'd assume that you had misspoke.