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by nathan_long 4324 days ago
> The actual thing you want to be able to do is quickly iterate on your product and constantly have it evolve.

This also helps you "fail fast". If you have a 1-year runway, it's much better to be able to build 3-4 apps for market validation than build one performant one that nobody wants.

If one succeeds and performance is a problem, you now have good reason to optimize, possibly even to switch languages.