Tootfinder

i often see claims that programming languages are not slow, it’s the implementation that’s slow
but that isn’t true, languages can be and often are designed in a way that makes it hard for programmers to make full use of the machine, and hard for an implementation to run programs written in that language at a decent speed
some sketchy notes with examples here:

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using #Golang
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang

remembering what open source was like before it was called “open source” https://lobste.rs/c/9i6xqh