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by kazinator 3130 days ago
> The Lisp version would just not be as performant as Ada's and Rust's.

What makes browsers perform badly is the execution of all that Javascript.

In Lisp, we can scan Javascript and go to machine code with far less work than doing the same thing in Ada.

The Ada browser might beat the Lisp one on the raw rendering of a big HTML-only page.