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yeah, performance optimization is the big cost with funcitonal languages, be it tail recursion or unfolding recursive stuff... recursion is very popular with functional languages but it has its own particular problems, i feel like the Go Authors have declined to add tail recursion to the language because the same logic is more efficiently expressed with for and switch and using concurrent channels and coroutines
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Diacone Frost 1y ago

it probably boils down to compiler. tail call recursion is hard to do (right).

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

expensive compilation, same problem as OOP, which doesn't exist with imperative style structural typed, interface and simplified template generics

my compilation is done in under 3 seconds almost every time, idk how anyone can experience go compilation and wonder at why they put up with thees other languages compile times

i've seen C++ compilations blow right over top of my memory several times in the past, memory use, sheer time...

i mean, building our esteemed nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqjqamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wv45kuatwv3a8wctw0f5kwtnnwpskxef0qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uq3yamnwvaz7tmwdaehgun4v5hxxmmd9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyrhprfwl7sxpnf247s07g26g7q8xrry3yftz9t3hkmptkeahd38yj4jvnvj 's gossip client takes at least 5 minutes, i know it's a fairly sophisticated app but that is still over the top in my book

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Diacone Frost 1y ago

I am a build master in our company and it takes 50 minutes to compile our 35 milions lines of java code from scratch 😂

(without cashes and stuff)

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

well, yeah, java has some crappy build systems too... that is worse than i'd expect from Rust, but cargo basically rips off Go's build cache system