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I think that line is mostly propaganda from defenders of poor performing language runtimes. It’s not a dichotomy - both are important. Eg AWS bills can easily e
by nvarsj 7y ago
I think that line is mostly propaganda from defenders of poor performing language runtimes. It’s not a dichotomy - both are important. Eg AWS bills can easily eclipse engineer salaries if you use it inefficiently.
- taffer 7y ago> propaganda from defenders of poor performing language runtimes Your comment is unnecessarily inflammatory. > AWS bills can easily eclipse engineer salaries if you use it inefficiently. If this happens, it is more due to architectural and algorithms problems than to the runtime of the language. There are many large applications written in Python, Ruby and PHP that run just fine.
- nvarsj 7y agoYes, sorry, it was a bit over the top. I've been burned a few too many times by people who use that argument to justify poor tech decisions.