[kevan]

We also shouldn't discount it just because Python is usually fast enough (all my personal projects are in Python). Developer time is cheaper than hardware 99% of the time. For the 1% that are running millions of requests per second through their web stacks the value proposition is pretty compelling.

[mmargerum]

Not when you are renting the hardware. Lean languages like Swift, Rust and even Go look pretty attractive when you are paying by the hour.

[xfer]

> Developer time is cheaper than hardware 99% of the time.

I find the exact opposite to be true in most cases.

[mixedCase]

In bare metal deployments or cloud? If the latter, then moving to the former seems like an obvious choice.

[kevan]

Whoops, I stated that backwards. My time is more valuable than the CPU's most of the time.