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by pjmlp 9 days ago
> ....it's whether the performance requirements are met or not ...

This is what so many people miss when doing micro-benchmarks of language X vs Y, sure Y might win out in execution speed, however if X delivers within the performance requirements and has a lower development cost, it wins out while being slower than Y.

Naturally taken to the extreme, when it isn't our hardware is how we end up with Electron apps.