There's no reason server-side CoffeeScript must be compiled to Javascript, that's just the most common example. There are native implementations, like Poetics

There's no reason server-side CoffeeScript must be compiled to Javascript, that's just the most common example. There are native implementations, like Poetics [1]. And note that high level languages are starting to really encroach on C's performance crown [2]. [1] https://github.com/brixen/poetics https://github.com/brixen/poetics [2] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-are-fastest.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a...