Are we seriously benchmarking programming languages based on the number of syscalls Hello World takes now
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I feel that post is just trolling. You wouldn't expect one to be responsible when they are trolling, right? It (correctly) didn't make to the HN front page, why bother even responding it...
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Because there's a trend of influential "anti-establishment" pundits making anti-intellectual claims about how software is broken/slow because of this kind of "bloat", if only we could just go back to the 80s when people knew what they were doing, etc. It needs to be fought back.
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It's not irresponsible, just stupid. Calling it irresponsible denies agency to the compiler writers, who are free to call BS and ignore such benchmarks.
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