Not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. A few years ago, we used to manage just fine with 128Megs of RAM and 500MHz processors. Now, programmer product

Not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. A few years ago, we used to manage just fine with 128Megs of RAM and 500MHz processors. Now, programmer productivity has suddenly taken importance over user experience. As far as desktop apps are concerned, I would prefer a C++ app with a couple of features I need over an extensible, feature-rich app written in Python. WebKit and Gecko have shown us that it is possible to make dynamic languages go faster. Yet, most people start yelling 'premature optimization LOL!!!1!' if you dare to tell them their app is slow.