alt Hacker News> to more performant runtimes and architectures in response to operational concerns at scale, which have a tenuous link to language
The runtime performance and the language are deeply linked. None of the dynamically typed runtimes you mention are actually performance competitive with JVM languages.
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DoesntMatter22 • today at 2:03 AM
They don’t really need to be though. They take far fewer tokens and are still faster to develop with
They absolutely are. Maybe not if the only thing you’re benchmarking is something completely CPU bound like signal processing/math, but they’re definitely competitive for tons of real use cases.