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> Better have a compiled language, even if its within a VM, like C# or Java, rather than interpreted ones like JS or python I'm not sure you understand how the

> Better have a compiled language, even if its within a VM, like C# or Java, rather than interpreted ones like JS or python I'm not sure you understand how these languages work as none of the are truly compiled in the sense I think you mean (natively). Both Java/C# and Javascript work in the same way: they are compiled to bytecode which is then interpreted. The only difference is that Java/C# is compiled AOT whereas V8 (presumably) compiles on first execution and caches the output. Python is a truly interpreted language although PyPy can give a huge perf boost.

kumarvvr 6y ago
Your comment caught me by surprise. For one, I am under the understanding that strongly typed languages like C# and Java, are optimally compiled to bytecode such that the overhead of running in a VM is minimal and performance is comparable to native code. I maybe wrong, I dont have a up to date knowledge of JS runtime and optimizations, but for such a dynamic, loosely typed language, there is only so much AOT and optimization you can do. V8 might have bridged that gap a fair bit, but is nowhere close to performance of C#. However, in almost all benchmarks, for real world use cases, .net always trumps JS runtimes.Also, a developer needs a high level of awareness and knowledge of underlying systems in JS to write performant code. The same is not true with C#, in the sense that as a seasoned developer, the strongly typed nature of C# mostly saves me from writing poorly performing code. I dont have to worry too much about underlying mechanisms in C#. Edit : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35457486/performance-and-memory-differences-between-c-sharp-and-javascript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35457486/performance-and... I found this. So, a program made for performance comparision between C# and JS would probably be equally fast in both. However, JS loses performance in real world due to its dynamic typing.

kumarvvr 6y ago

Your comment caught me by surprise. For one, I am under the understanding that strongly typed languages like C# and Java, are optimally compiled to bytecode such that the overhead of running in a VM is minimal and performance is comparable to native code. I maybe wrong, I dont have a up to date knowledge of JS runtime and optimizations, but for such a dynamic, loosely typed language, there is only so much AOT and optimization you can do. V8 might have bridged that gap a fair bit, but is nowhere close to performance of C#. However, in almost all benchmarks, for real world use cases, .net always trumps JS runtimes.Also, a developer needs a high level of awareness and knowledge of underlying systems in JS to write performant code. The same is not true with C#, in the sense that as a seasoned developer, the strongly typed nature of C# mostly saves me from writing poorly performing code. I dont have to worry too much about underlying mechanisms in C#. Edit : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35457486/performance-and-memory-differences-between-c-sharp-and-javascript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35457486/performance-and... I found this. So, a program made for performance comparision between C# and JS would probably be equally fast in both. However, JS loses performance in real world due to its dynamic typing.