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by the_duke 684 days ago
> the costs of those particular compiled languages is high enough

Only if we are talking developer experience.

Even if you are working on something almost no-one uses. Spending a bit of time , or even hours, compiling, will be dwarfed by running more efficient code.

Just remember that there are billions of devices constantly (re)JITing Javascript code...