On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 05:19:08 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Yep, I specifically mentioned the mobile and server domains as places where general-purpose native/AoT-compiled languages are having a resurgence, obviously for the efficiency reasons Etienne lists.
In theory. Objective-C and Swift are AoT, but not efficiency focused and geared towards interactive apps. I wouldn't call Swift+Metal general purpose.
de-emphasized as a result. However, with the rise of mobile and webapps not doing as well there, for a variety of reasons, native development is coming back for many apps, at least on the client side for networked apps.
For most apps it is mostly about UI look-and-feel, not really performance.
