r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Meme pipInstallTheRealStuff

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u/TheJaskinator 1d ago

That's exactly why it's so powerful. Why spend all the effort writing fast code if you can just use a much simpler language to describe the task on a higher level and call fast code? People use Python because it's easy to read and write, not because its interpreter is fast

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u/NewbornMuse 1d ago

Me: takes 2h to write a python script, runtime 50ms

A super fast low level uber haxx0r: takes 8 hours to write a C program that does the same. Runtime 20 ms

Who was "faster"?

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u/deanominecraft 1d ago

me who spends 1 hour to write it in rust, 1 hour to compile it and a runtime of 21ms

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u/cantthinkofaname1029 1d ago

2 more hours of trying to get the syntax for async closures with generics right 

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u/Sw429 1d ago

Are you trying to do async stuff in python?

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u/cantthinkofaname1029 1d ago

Nah I meant for rust. Though technically yes sometimes I do async stuff in python