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vlovich123today at 4:45 AM1 replyview on HN

I’m curious. Given the overheads of Fil-C++, does it actually make sense to use it for greenfield projects? I like that Fil-C fills a gap in securing old legacy codebases, I’m just not sure I understand it for greenfield projects like this other than you happen to know C++ really well.


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pizlonatortoday at 4:50 AM

It made sense because I was able to move very quickly, and once perf became a problem I could move to Yolo-C++ without a full rewrite.

> happen to know C++ really well

That’s my bias yeah. But C++ is good for more than just perf. If you need access to low level APIs, or libraries that happen to be exposed as C/C++ API, or you need good support for dynamic linking and separate compilation - then C++ (or C) are a great choice

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