Daniel Lemire on Best programming language for high performance

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Daniel Lemire on Best programming language for high performance

I keep hoping that the field of programming language will evolve. I am a bit tired to program in Java and C… I’d like better languages. I am particularly interested in what I generally call “high-performance programming”. I want to pick languages where I can get the most out of my hardware...

http://lemire.me/blog/2017/01/16/best-programming-language-for-high-performance-january-2017/

Not all that deep but still worth reading.