There's almost always a performance tradeoff when choosing to use some other language than C/C++; how much of a performance cost is the key question. If it's co

There's almost always a performance tradeoff when choosing to use some other language than C/C++; how much of a performance cost is the key question. If it's consistently within a factor of 2 of C performance, that's actually quite good, considering all of the high-level benefits you get out of it.