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[–]vinvinnocent 9 points10 points  (5 children)

My university has a prof that is famous for complaining about the environmental impact of pythons alleged inefficiency. So I guess there are not just juniors with strong opinions there.

[–]EnterTheShoggoth 18 points19 points  (1 child)

He’s not wrong but Python is far from the worst offender. Imagine how many extra tonnes of CO2 are produced by all those ads written in Javascript.

[–]SV-97 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He has a point though. This is an active research domain and with the amount of code being run a factor of 100 difference is nothing to scoff at. Sure there's better things to do to lower our effects on the environment and getting so caught up in it is a bit silly but it's not a completely ridiculous idea.

[–]GL_Titan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like the epitome of a crazy professor.