Right, which is why I said “gets less mainstream,” meaning that the examples listed were not mainstream. Apologies if that was unclear. But you'd be wrong abou

Right, which is why I said “gets less mainstream,” meaning that the examples listed were not mainstream. Apologies if that was unclear. But you'd be wrong about your speed guesses. Ada/Spark and Fortran can be incredibly fast. Much of the world's fastest numerical code is written in Fortran, for example. (OCaml can be super quick too, though it can take a bit of care, and I get the feeling they've fallen behind in compiler tech in recent years.)