> It would rather be a waste of resources, money and energy not to use an high-performance language for high-performance applications.
Given that probably most developers support the push to tackle the climate change, they seem to be making no effort to ensure their apps execute in as short time as possible using as little resources as possible.
You would expect that people would actually embrace doing things in C or Go to save energy.
Maybe cloud providers should think of showing the carbon footprint as a first class performance metric.
Just like with code optimization we should first make sure making code run slightly more efficient really has an impact on the climate. Because I very much doubt it does.
When you want to save the climate there are many, many low-hanging fruits. The choice of programming language is likely not one of them, as much as I like efficient code.
Given that probably most developers support the push to tackle the climate change, they seem to be making no effort to ensure their apps execute in as short time as possible using as little resources as possible. You would expect that people would actually embrace doing things in C or Go to save energy. Maybe cloud providers should think of showing the carbon footprint as a first class performance metric.