Snippet that caught my attention as someone who’s mostly been programming in high level languages.
“During the era of Moore’s Law a common mantra in the software world has been, “the programmers time is more valuable than the computer’s time.” This mentality has brought plenty of wonderful things with it including dynamic and expressive languages such as Python and JavaScript. These languages create programs that — compared to their equivalents written in C — are slow and use lots of memory. These trade offs were easy to make when computers would be twice as fast, have more RAM, and larger CPU caches in a year and a half. These advances have also brought down the cost of creating software and made it much easier for beginners to learn how to program.
But Moore’s Law is dead.
CPU speeds have been stagnating for several years now, and experts in the field of computer hardware do not expect them to recover [...]”
“During the era of Moore’s Law a common mantra in the software world has been, “the programmers time is more valuable than the computer’s time.” This mentality has brought plenty of wonderful things with it including dynamic and expressive languages such as Python and JavaScript. These languages create programs that — compared to their equivalents written in C — are slow and use lots of memory. These trade offs were easy to make when computers would be twice as fast, have more RAM, and larger CPU caches in a year and a half. These advances have also brought down the cost of creating software and made it much easier for beginners to learn how to program. But Moore’s Law is dead. CPU speeds have been stagnating for several years now, and experts in the field of computer hardware do not expect them to recover [...]”