Comment on Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results for Gaming PerformanceparentComments−Kinrany2yI'm suggesting an outside view: give up trying to evaluate languages based on their features, evaluate languages based on programs written in them."X written in Y" advertises two things:- language X turned out to be a reasonably good language for writing program Y- program Y is likely to be good at things that X is known for making easy to doBoth of these seem useful, if prone to motivated reasoning.−Kinrany2yBut I agree that the article misrepresents the tweet. The promise is in achieving comparable performance with less effort, not in achieving better performance.
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I'm suggesting an outside view: give up trying to evaluate languages based on their features, evaluate languages based on programs written in them.
"X written in Y" advertises two things:
- language X turned out to be a reasonably good language for writing program Y
- program Y is likely to be good at things that X is known for making easy to do
Both of these seem useful, if prone to motivated reasoning.
But I agree that the article misrepresents the tweet. The promise is in achieving comparable performance with less effort, not in achieving better performance.