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by fouric 996 days ago
> Sorry, not even remotely close. I want to see some serious evidence.

Funny that you say "not even remotely close" while providing zero evidence yourself, but then ask other people to present their evidence.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

There you go. There's the evidence. No goalpost-moving, please.

For evidence that Javascript can be used to build large, production-quality applications, see coldtea's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37568707

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Speed is achieved via optimization, which is achieved via constraints. Javascript is being known for its inefficiency. Saying JS is just as fast is a hot take and whoever claims that has the burden to proof otherwise.

Sorry, about benchmarks I just quote myself: > I take these performance benchmarks with a rock of salt. They are mostly hyper-optimzied generics which are as far away from actual production code as it can be. They are written in a way to allocate as little memory as possible and is done by people who know exactly what they are doing.

> done by people who know exactly what they are doing

Do you think we should only compare JavaScript written by newbies?