Just in case this post isn't satire this post is inane. And I know I risk being seen as "that guy" with the shallow and dismissive comment. Scripting languages

Just in case this post isn't satire this post is inane. And I know I risk being seen as "that guy" with the shallow and dismissive comment. Scripting languages should be "fast enough". That's an intentionally vague requirement. And Ruby is indisputably "fast enough" for a billion little usecases. Of course it would be better if ruby were to start up instantly. But it's absolutely not a dealbreaker and to suggest Java is a better scripting language because it starts faster strikes me as idiotic. The measurements in the post don't prove anything and it certainly doesn't prove that Ruby sucks at scripting. The author must know this. The author must also know that measuring the time needed for a print statement isn't a meaningful performance metric. So that means this post is either satire or intentionally provocative idiocy. Either way I don't think it's HN material. Flagged.