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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?
#12C#/.NET in my opinion. Extremely extensive and high quality standard library and it keeps getting faster every release.
Though it's kind of a difficult question to answer, what do you need the standard library to actually do?
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
#13Nodejs is extremely fast in networking (web, api, gateway) kinds of scenarios both dev-time (which is more important) and runtime wise
Node doesn't have a large standard library so it doesn't answer the question.
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#14Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
#15Without providing a defn of “fast” and within what domain, this is a meaningless post.
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
#16go
this. go has the best perf:dx:deployment ratio.
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
#17C#/.NET in my opinion. Extremely extensive and high quality standard library and it keeps getting faster every release. Though it's kind of a difficult question to answer, what do you need the standard library to actually do?
Agree, no other standard library has comparable degree of code vectorization either.
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
#18I 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?
Ohhhhh yeah
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
20 years ago yes. Today it is a terrible monster that you use because of the lack of alternatives, not because it is fast or comfortable to use.
I disagree Java 21 is really nice. Lots of modern features, tons of rock solid, battle tested open source libraries. Amazing tooling.
> Amazing tooling.
Apparently you're comparing to java 20 years ago. Not to modern dev friendly ecosystems.
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
#20Why is no one mentioning c++? Is that not the obvious answer here ?