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I find your comment puzzling. What specifically is not an accepted fact?

• pdimitar 5y ago
  Sorry, should have been more specific, my bad. I mean this part in particular: > It's irrelevant whether it is in principle possible to create faster tools in other languages. I disagree that it's irrelevant. There's a ton of development tooling nowadays that can be much faster. The accumulated slowdown and thumb-twiddling that ensues when 20 JS junior devs have to wait for a solid minute or two on their mid-range laptops can and has lead to real productivity losses.
  • optymizer 5y ago
    In this scenario, the team uses dev tool X for project Y. I'm not arguing that X shouldn't be faster, or even that it's not beneficial for Y to run faster. My original point was that the team that worked on project Y so far is unlikely to do a better job in a completely new language, just because some other team managed to write fast software in that language, because the other team isn't the one working on project Y. I didn't think this would be a controversial point. I probably should have phrased it better.
    • pdimitar 5y ago
      Now that you explained it I actually agree with you so maybe another phrasing was needed indeed. But maybe I'm just dumb and didn't get it earlier. :) I agree the odds are against the team employing a new language. Far from impossible though. I've seen it successfully pulled off a number of times (I've seen plenty of unsuccessful tries as well).