yea, we certainly wouldn’t want regular user applications to run fast or respect user resources. can’t have that

Dylan16807 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Even if that was the tradeoff, your average C/C++ program isn't notably fast or lean.

	▲	uecker 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The C programs I use daily are generally very fast, very lean and very stable: Programs such as linux, terminals, shells, vim, etc.

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krior an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

false dichtonomy

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hn_submit an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I, for one, can't see any speed difference between a program written in Pascal (Total Commander, which I use every day) and one written in C++ (Windows Explorer).

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asdff 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You can’t compare apples to elephants here.

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leptons 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

File browsers are probably the worst example you could use here. The actual file manipulations are handled by the OS. The rest of it is just displaying lists of files, so no real speed difference would be noticed in different languages/programs. Most of the time the file browser is just sitting there waiting for user interaction.

The programs that do benefit from speed aren't file browsers.

	▲	Alpha3031 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There are a lot of applications like that though, only they're all being rewritten for electron.