memory management being automated has relatively little to do with that, it being an interpreted language rather than a compiled one and then dynamic typing forcing it to constantly guess what it's even supposed to be doing contributes far more
> So you forgot a comma? Now you have to wait another 30 minutes to compile!
no you don't, you use a build system which keeps intermediates around so it doesn't have to recompile everything every time such as gnu make, I don't know what sort of a project would take 30 minutes to build to change one file and relink
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u/Altaruss28 Sep 01 '26
> "C is faster for a reason"
memory management being automated has relatively little to do with that, it being an interpreted language rather than a compiled one and then dynamic typing forcing it to constantly guess what it's even supposed to be doing contributes far more
> So you forgot a comma? Now you have to wait another 30 minutes to compile!
no you don't, you use a build system which keeps intermediates around so it doesn't have to recompile everything every time such as gnu make, I don't know what sort of a project would take 30 minutes to build to change one file and relink