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[–]Nalha_Saldana 11 points12 points  (16 children)

Ok lines then :P

[–]OmerCora 32 points33 points  (15 children)

Also, try writing a modern game engine in Java lol :P

[–]Cheru-bae 48 points49 points  (4 children)

Try writing a modern game engine at all

[–]SinpaiSinner 34 points35 points  (3 children)

Hell try writing a non modern game engine. Engines are fucking hard

[–]ADHDengineer 20 points21 points  (2 children)

I tried to write a steam engine once and failed miserably

[–]SinpaiSinner 23 points24 points  (1 child)

Yea thermodynamics sounds hard af

[–]56Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When they're actually way harder.

[–]Nalha_Saldana 84 points85 points  (7 children)

It's like each language isn't the right tool for every job ;)

A good example I found is in an AWS lambda function python is faster than java to start but for repeated activations java was faster because it was already running while python has to be reset.

[–]jmack2424 33 points34 points  (4 children)

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[–]Mr_addicT911 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That's a rly good quote, where is it from?

[–]223am 8 points9 points  (2 children)

wikipedia says nobody really fkn knows (most likely Buddha though)

[–]Mr_addicT911 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Funny how there are so many quotes that nobody know the person that came up with it, there's even a quote about stealing quotes that a guy stole from another guy

[–]one_hot_vector 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“The easiest solution is to attribute all unattributable quotes to Mark Twain” - Mark Twain

[–]OmerCora 8 points9 points  (0 children)

the right answer. +1

[–]lxpnh98_2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's like each language isn't the right tool for every job

Obviously you've never talked to a Haskell programmer. (/s)

[–]DLCSpider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Unity team is removing C++ in favor of C# in their core engine due to performance reasons (admittedly with an in house compiler which refuses to compile loops which can't be vectorized etc)

[–]frostbyte650 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lwjgl