> But my god, what if the community had gravitated to a better language [for these purposes] in the first place? How much further along would we be in our tooli

> But my god, what if the community had gravitated to a better language [for these purposes] in the first place? How much further along would we be in our tooling and capabilities to deliver value? Better in what regard? Performance? Maybe there are more important things than performance, like ease of use and barriers to entry. People in this space already tackle essentially complex problems, don't throw more accidental complexity in the form of "better" or more performant languages/APIs.