| V8 for Javascript is also that much faster than Ruby/Python in almost all benchmarks. And Javascript is as dynamic as Ruby is. Seriously, even V8, speed wise is up there with Go and even faster in most cases: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... Sure, raw benchmark speed doesn't matter for code dealing with external latency sources (databases and similar IO bound cases), but it's very nice for CPU intensive code. TL;DR: V8 and Dart are blazingly fast. Now, maybe Dart doesn't have much future in the browser space without being adopted by the major vendors, but, wouldn't it be nice if Dart could got some adoption like Go did in the scripting/server area. It would make a nice and modern dynamic language to balance something like Go that plays at the statically typed side. Of course, getting someone like Lars Bak to make a screaming fast Ruby or Python VM would be even better. He could improve on one of the next-gen implementations of those languages, like Rubinious or PyPy. Maybe there's hope a crowd-funding project to pay the man? Because, as it seems, volunteer effort can only get you that far. |
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...