In my experience the language is not often the primary cause for "slowness". After all the majority of web apps are I/O bound. It is true that in benchmarks is not the fastest but speed of language isn't usually the only reason you choose to "lock in" into a community (which you do after all if you decide to invest for many years building a company with a stack).
That said, Quora is 12 years old. Go, which is often used as a comparison for fast productive languages with a garbage collector, is 12 years old ;-)
ok, on that point of Go, is not it by that time Java was there and i hear many people arguing for it as fast, stable and suitable for writing large complex systems
Dunno, Java being the defaultt choice was one of the reasons why I started using Python in the first place :) Again, I don't think you can measure developer productivity just by "fast". Otherwise we'd only write in C or Java but we don't ;-)
In my experience the language is not often the primary cause for "slowness". After all the majority of web apps are I/O bound. It is true that in benchmarks is not the fastest but speed of language isn't usually the only reason you choose to "lock in" into a community (which you do after all if you decide to invest for many years building a company with a stack).
That said, Quora is 12 years old. Go, which is often used as a comparison for fast productive languages with a garbage collector, is 12 years old ;-)
ok, on that point of Go, is not it by that time Java was there and i hear many people arguing for it as fast, stable and suitable for writing large complex systems
Dunno, Java being the defaultt choice was one of the reasons why I started using Python in the first place :) Again, I don't think you can measure developer productivity just by "fast". Otherwise we'd only write in C or Java but we don't ;-)
thanks you