Turns out performance is not a property of the language, but of the implementation and the performance of the implementation is a product of (some inherent properties of the language) and (how much resources you're willing to spend on making it fast)https://twitter.com/cemerick/status/1088887866908950533 …
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even this is probably not qualified enough. it's more like a product of - the alignment between the language design and the underlying target system (VM, hardware) - how much you're willing to spend - the characteristics of all the software already written in the language
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underlying point here is like another argument I've made, that lots of things in technology come down to capital as much as clever engineering (hardware support is a form of capital!)https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1084635004544651264 …
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(You probably already know this, but) the capital invested isn't exogenous w.r.t. language properties. I think two or three companies (Google, Dropbox, ???) have tried to make a fast Python JIT and they've all given up and concluded that it's harder to do for Python than for js.
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