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Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?

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Post by BillyTheMage »

Common Lisp has quite a lot compared to most languages, and in most cases is just as performant. Of course C and Rust are always going to outperform in edge cases simply because of their proximity to hardware.

I don't remember the exact quote, but it goes something like "most [languages?] are a buggy implementation of half of Common Lisp"

Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?

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Post by mikewarot »

I always thought of Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Free Pascal as a fairly complete system. Static typing gets in the way at times, so you won't see TensorFlow in Pascal, but the TUI/GUI that came with it made it suitable for building almost anything, with no added pieces.

The compilation process itself is one of the fastest around. Libraries are "units" and separately compiled. You can have GUI executables that weigh in at < 500k if you turn off debugging.

Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?

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Post by Encyclopediadev »

mikewarot wrote: post #7

I always thought of Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Free Pascal as a fairly complete system. Static typing gets in the way at times, so you won't see TensorFlow in Pascal, but the TUI/GUI that came with it made it suitable for building almost anything, with no added pieces. The compilation process itself is one of the fastest around. Libraries are "units" and separately compiled. You can have GUI executables that weigh in at < 5…

Is it fast at runtime?
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