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		revskill on May 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zero Cost Abstractions So, it's zero cost from the program performance standpoint. User MUST pay something to have it. It's not zero-cost from user standpoint.

saagarjha on May 17, 2019 [–]

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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