> Maybe that's because scripting languages are a bad idea for anything performance critical anyway This is an example of how programming as a discipline and ac

> Maybe that's because scripting languages are a bad idea for anything performance critical anyway This is an example of how programming as a discipline and activity is consistently dismissed by the software community as an unnecessary contrivance. "What about absolute performance?" But the reality is you're making tons of those tradeoffs. You're using a compiler, on an instruction set designed for humans, leaning on network stacks that do work for you in generic but sub-optimal ways, using container systems that introduce huge performance penalties. Those are socially acceptable to you. They're special in that you think they aren't special. > So why would you write anything in a scripting language only to rewrite it later in a compiled langue, if you could have used an equally capable compiled language in the first place? This assumes they are in fact equally capable. Please don't retort with Turing completeness. That's a copout and we all know you aren't about to go shipping things in BF.