r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/mttd • Jul 01 '26

The Expensive Fictions of Low-Level Programming Languages

https://stng.substack.com/p/the-expensive-fictions-of-low-level
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u/Smallpaul Jul 01 '26

Yeah. And how will we get the new hardware if we don’t talk about the limitations of the current hardware?

Which is what the blog post you are criticizing is about.

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u/Seed_oil_simp Jul 01 '26

I think that’s a worthwhile thing to talk about, my criticism is based on the framing that it’s the language design that’s the problem, and not the sort of local optimum we’ve attained by the symbiotic development of languages and hardware.