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		pjmlp on June 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Three months of Rust > It shouldn't be surprising that Go blows other systems out of the water in this regard. For any developer that never used Turbo Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon compilers, just to cite a few examples among many possible ones. Those that did, can not comprehend why companies invested in languages like C and C++, which created this notion all compilers should be slow.

insulanian on June 5, 2015 [–]

Oh yes, Turbo Pascal (and even Delphi / Object Pascal) had a really fast compiler. Sigh... those were the days...

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