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The faster programming language or compiler is the one you use. Always.

• nobleach 5y ago
  ...I wish this were true. I'm back writing JavaScript/Typescript. The new build tools are great. Perhaps in the new year I'll convert some of these repos to build with esbuild or swc... or vite.
• nouveaux 5y ago
  No matter how good you are at Python, if you need to build an SPA, it'll be far faster to go with Javascript. This is true even if you have to learn Javascript from scratch. If you're an expert at Pascal, good luck trying to use it on the Arduino. The hardest part of learning a second and third programming language is overcoming your own frustration. Yes there are some pretty gnarly concepts in languages like Haskell. However, most mainstream programming languages are very similar to each other.
  • benibela 5y ago
    >If you're an expert at Pascal, good luck trying to use it on the Arduino. It is supposed to work with FreePascal: https://wiki.freepascal.org/AVR_Programming https://wiki.freepascal.org/AVR_Programming
• keithnz 5y ago
  This is almost never the criteria people use as it is often not that important. Productivity is often a bigger factor. Security and Robustness is another factor. Libraries is another, portability, Platform limitations, Domain problem to be solved. Most software these days isn't really constrained by speed, if the software ran 10x faster, you'd only get marginal gains.