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by ianm218 28 days ago
> Python and Ruby have been an immense environmental (and type safety) disaster.

The vast majority of code is not performance bottleknecked at the language level. I.e. Instagram still runs on an optimized version of Django as far as I know.

For most Web companies most of the optimization is at the query/ db/ storage/ network level.