I never expected this quick jab to trigger such reactions.
Yes, it’s glue. True for Ruby, PHP, Perl as well.
I just think it’s disingenuous to associate the word “fast” with anything implemented with it, granted that C is 70 times faster than it. I mean, me saying it’s slow compared to C is less hyperbolic than saying it’s fast.
And I think Python is perfectly adequate for plenty of use cases, so is PHP, so is Ruby. I like to be mean to JavaScript, but even that is fine for web dev.
Yes, it’s glue. True for Ruby, PHP, Perl as well.
I just think it’s disingenuous to associate the word “fast” with anything implemented with it, granted that C is 70 times faster than it. I mean, me saying it’s slow compared to C is less hyperbolic than saying it’s fast.
And I think Python is perfectly adequate for plenty of use cases, so is PHP, so is Ruby. I like to be mean to JavaScript, but even that is fine for web dev.