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This is usually the wrong approach. Make sure you don’t do computations that block the UI, avoid accidentally quadratic behavior, and make sure you process UI events promptly. You can do this is pretty much any language, with minor caveats:

Some languages (e.g. Haskell) make it easy to write code that does more computation than intended. If you use one of these languages, make sure you know what you’re doing.

If you use a language with a truly horrible GC, you might experience excessively long pauses. Similarly, if you produce too much garbage, you might have issues.

If you use a language that can’t multithread properly (sigh, Python), moving tasks off thread is a mess.

Otherwise, one can write perfectly responsive software in just about any language.



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