I feel these days, we as developers are on a death race for high-performance on every consumer device with all these extensions, new languages. And it does impose a problem to library writers: how can I make my library reliable and fast on as many platforms as possible? To me, it seems quite impossible. Admittedly, the situation now may be better if we comparing with 20 years ago. But 20 years ago, we don't have these complex libraries/frameworks to port over.
Don't get me wrong, I love to learn new technologies and am excited about all kinds of new new new things. But to maintain every "different" version of the same algorithm is quite exhausting.
Don't get me wrong, I love to learn new technologies and am excited about all kinds of new new new things. But to maintain every "different" version of the same algorithm is quite exhausting.