Every few weeks someone posts a graph showing that C++ is 50x faster than Python because they wrote a program that counts to 1000000000. This is then presented as a profound statement about programming languages rather than what it actually is: a measurement of how fast two runtimes execute a completely useless loop The first problem is that the benchmark is usually measuring something other than what the author thinks it is measuring. Python is mostly paying interpreter overhead. C++ is mostly

Cursor CEO Michael Truell on the future of writing code: "Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming.""It looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English.""You can imagine kind of an evolution of programming language towards pseudocode. You have written down the logic of the software, and you can edit that at a high level.""It won't be the impenetrable millions of lines of code, it'll instead be something that's m

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