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		saagarjha on May 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zero Cost Abstractions How is the user paying for this? Generally the cost ends up being longer compiles and more development time.

withoutboats on May 17, 2019 [–]

The user is the programmer in this context, the user of the programming language, not the end user of the program.

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