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		_3u10 on March 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Call for support for Lisp in WebAssembly developme... This is the (infinite) loop that keeps us with C. Lets not do X because it would benefit Y which no one uses. No one uses Y because it's slow because no CPU supports X. Very few people think the future really exists.

CyberDildonics on March 12, 2016 [–]

You think languages are slow because they aren't 'supported' by the CPU?

A dynamically typed language isn't going to start running at the speed of C with some extra CPU engineering.

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