I think maybe it's just semantics as long as everyone agrees where the speedup is happening (at the low level language calls). I noticed that you're pretty har

I think maybe it's just semantics as long as everyone agrees where the speedup is happening (at the low level language calls). I noticed that you're pretty hard in the "basic isn't fast, the thing it transpiles to is fast" camp, but still accidentally said "there is a version of BASIC [...] that is lightning fast" which I'm not sure you think? Highlights just how tricky it is to talk about where speed lives