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The disagreement in the comment section of that Hacker News post centers mainly on "whether it is worth investing time in building a toolchain": some commenters believe low-resource languages are suited to deep optimization in specific scenarios, while others emphasize that ecosystem costs will eventually exceed the benefits.
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