• nik9000@programming.dev
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    12 days ago

    It’d be fun to talk shop with the fast code in slow languages folks. I do that for a living. I remember three ways, but I’m sure there’s more:

    • “Just use a better data structure”
    • “My language is a DSL for a faster language” (Polars, Numpy, etc)
    • “My compiler is surprisingly good if I’m careful” (Julia, JVM, etc)
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      11 days ago

      Arguably “we can just put it in docker, and create an auto scaling microservice with a load balancer, behind a CDN for avg request latency” fits this group too. The hoops I have to jump through to get a good user experience on top of our shitty PHP backend are unreal