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by kfuse 485 days ago
All modern popular languages are fast, except the most popular one.
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api 485 days ago
JavaScript is hella fast for a dynamically typed language, but that's because we've put insane amounts of effort into making fast JITing VMs for it.
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zamalek 485 days ago
Sure, but "for a dynamically typed language" still means that it's slow amongst all languages.
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paulddraper 485 days ago
And Python+Ruby
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