>If you go the handcrafted, lightweight and fast route, you're sacrificing a lot of features, possibly without even being aware of what you lose until it's too

>If you go the handcrafted, lightweight and fast route, you're sacrificing a lot of features, possibly without even being aware of what you lose until it's too late. Some modern languages offer memory safety and very very high performance ceilings as well, if you are willing to learn how and work at. Examples include, C#, Rust, F#, and Nim. There are others! And any language, taking some time to understand performance pitfalls, and leveraging the language the best you can, can make a huge difference. Sometimes without any major maintenance or dev time penalty. It just takes caring, and practice.