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I don’t think it’s dismissing compiler improvements, I think it’s dismissing compiler astronautics when there already is a good, performant solution at hand. T
by Tabular-Iceberg 3y ago
I don’t think it’s dismissing compiler improvements, I think it’s dismissing compiler astronautics when there already is a good, performant solution at hand.
Though to be fair to Facebook, in 2004 there were no good web languages. The choice was between weird enterprise stuff like WebObjects, JavaEE and ColdFusion, or small pragmatic languages with clumsy implementations like Python, Ruby and PHP.