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What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LLVM will save us.

Maybe...

[–] porgamrer@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LLVM is ironically a very slow compiler back-end, whose popularity has contributed to a general slow-down in compilation speed across the whole industry (it's even slow at doing debug builds for fast iteration).

WASM has some promise though

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Doesn't really matter if the compiler is slow if the result is optimized and fast 🤷 Rust compiles slower than C, but that's because C has no safeguards (excluding static typing). Very often the wasted CPU cycles are on the end of the user, not the developer.