> can absolutely write unmaintainable But you CAN write fast code too! And that, for a fairly high level language (in some aspects) is quite a feature, especia

> can absolutely write unmaintainable But you CAN write fast code too! And that, for a fairly high level language (in some aspects) is quite a feature, especially in the context of the safety it provides. In pure Python/Ruby you can certainly not write very fast code, not matter how hard you try.