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(I saw this post on Hacker News, the community least likely to see the total irony in their excitement over this announcement.)
New rule: If you "program" "software" in a language where floating-point numbers are strings, you don't get any more computers, ever.
What do you think about the common argument that these high level languages increase overall efficiency by being faster to write in?
I covered this in my talk ... there is no evidence of such efficiency, in fact, it is very much the opposite.
which talk pls
I am fascinated by the facts which coincide with my own benchmarks:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk …
I once criticized languages 50x+ slower than Rust/C. Got lots of negative feedback. People seem to really like their slow languages. Running the whole internet (servers and clients) isn't insignificant source of energy consumption. We could definitely do better.
I feel we should also account for developer productivity, though. If it takes 50x the developers to make the same thing in C; how much resources did it cost to have those extra developers? How long would a CPU need to run a 50x slower program to match that? Quite long, I bet.
I am not willing to accept that good productivity must equal bad runtime performance. We can surely design lanauge with both good productivity and good runtime performance. Rust for example showed that added safety didn't kill performance. It did the opposite (proves noalias).
That is completely fair, hoping for that language to appear one day too! C, however, is not it, wouldn't you agree?
But what if functions were strings?
Been there, done that!! (Tcl)
Which language is that?
JavaScript prolly
I was thinking he was referring to this kinda behavior: var x = 100 / "10"; but maybe not.
You're a pretty cranky guy!
Right on, but I've got something that might speed it up for ya 
char* approx = "0x5f3759df";
Can't stop giggling about: "program" "software". Made my day. Thank you.
Doesnt it take more skill to turn numbers into strings though. Kinda magicy.
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