I like C programs for their speed - eviltoast
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    4 months ago

    Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. There are many applications that don’t have performance needs such as a calculator app

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      4 months ago

      You can find plenty of people complaining online about the startup time of the windows and gnome (snap) calculators. The problem in those cases isn’t solved by compiled languages, but it illustrates that it’s important to consider performance even for things like calculator apps.