On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 19:13:15 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
Although I don't know D very well yet, it sounds like Russel
hits the nail precisely on the head here. FWICT, folks have
lately used scripting languages (ex. Python, Perl, Ruby) for
larger and larger programs (and even JS+Node for local apps),
Resulting in terrible software. Take text editors written in
JS+Electron. Slow bloated crap.Noticeable slow on a 2 core i5
MacBook Pro with 8Gb RAM. Press key , notice delay, see char on
sceen. Really ???? I mean, REALLY ? I had a 8086 which could
edit text with no issue. Had a C64 with 64kb or RAM too which was
up to the task of editing text. Look at how slow Visual Studio
became in time as more and more of it was written in managed
languages and non-native code. Android is pitifully slow , and
not because of Linux.
Democratization of programming through JS/ PhP / Perl and other
scripts was great for society because it empowered a lot of
humans. But also created means to write bloated, inefficient,
terribly slow software. Nuclear weapons used where a surgeon's
tool is mandated.
