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How many people are there who actually need to scale an application across hundreds, thousands, or millions of servers vs the ones that think they are going to
by smoe 9y ago
How many people are there who actually need to scale an application across hundreds, thousands, or millions of servers vs the ones that think they are going to need it?
I agree that at some point CPU speed is more expensive than programming time, but how many applications in the wild are actually at or beyond that point? I would be surprised if it is more than a couple of percent.
Sure if I know that a product has to serve millions from the get go, I'd choose a more performance focused language than Python. But if it is about building an MVP for a new startup it seems quite unreasonable to me to spent 3x the time to get it out of the door just for the extremely slim chance that the product takes off faster than Python is able to catch up with.
- stuaxo 9y agoI'd quite like to be able to write some plain python (not PIL or numpy or Cython or whatever) to change all the pixels in an image at a similar speed to say Java.
- walterstucco 9y agoThe argument works both ways Imagine you spend $200 a month on Amazon and can cut it to just $50 with a faster and less memory taxing language You suddenly have more money to spend on something else