> Software has been getting slower at a rate roughly equivalent to the rate at which computers are getting faster.
Cite?
This problem statement is also such a weird introduction to specifically this new programming language. Yes, compiled languages with no GC are faster than the alternatives. But the problem is and was not the alternatives. Those alternatives fill the vast majority of computing uses and work well enough.
The problem is compiled languages with no GC, before Rust, were bug prone, and difficult to use safely.
So -- why are we talking about this? Because jblow won't stop catastrophizing. He has led a generation of impressionable programmers to believe that we in some dark age of software, when that statement couldn't be further from the truth.
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