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Discussion on: Moore's Law and Programming languages

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Ben Halpern

Perhaps not speed so much as language design. When parallelism is the name of the game, some languages are much more appealing than others.

That being said, there are a lot of ways to scale horizontally and the language rarely seems to be the actual bottleneck. It's just part of the stew of decisions that needs to be made.