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by jacquesm 2613 days ago
> or javascript on the backend, that would be madness

It seems madness is pretty common.

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True.

For most projects, it's good enough.

Also, I worked for many shops that had a two language policy, one for development speed and one for performance.

For example, PHP and C or something.

They had many PHP devs and a few C devs and would write anything new in PHP and then later replace the few performance critical parts with C implementations.

I thought about doing this with JavaScript and Rust in my projects, but somehow I never got to the point that JavaScript became the bottle-neck.

It is. Mistakes take a far longer time to be understood than fashion.