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kaba0 on June 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The computers are fast, but you don't know it

If Go is “fast enough”, then so is Java, C#, JS, Haskell, and a litany of other managed languages.

lmm on June 17, 2022 [–]

Yes. For some reason programming culture repeatedly fails to realise that if you want to group languages into two buckets by performance with one being "like C" and the other being "like Python" then all the languages you list (except maybe JS) belong in the "like C" bucket.

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