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by fragmede 807 days ago
No, but an API is a leaky abstraction. you'll notice slowness, you'll encounter bugs, you'll see shortcomings in the data model used. All of those flow from the choice of language used on the backend. I'm not claiming that any one language is better than another, just that the leaky abstraction means the choice of language will have user-facing consequences.
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> you'll see shortcomings in the data model used

Betting you a case of beer I can write a horrible data model in any language

and I say you win that bet. but that horribleness will be influenced by the underlying language is my point
Ohhh okey