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rewrite it in rust might be a joke -- but damn most the massive improvements in dynamic language toolchains have come from the toolchains being rewritten in rus

by dzonga 11d ago

rewrite it in rust might be a joke -- but damn most the massive improvements in dynamic language toolchains have come from the toolchains being rewritten in rust - Python, JS

thephyber 11d ago
Now we rewrite the web in Rust WASM. /s But seriously, Python and JavaScript have reflection/introspection features. Once the investment was made to transcribe the entire language into a compiled language, the speed gains were obviously going to happen.
- pjmlp 10d ago
  They also exist in compiled languages without the performance impact of scripting languages.
pjmlp 10d ago
They are only surprising for anyone that never used any ahead of time compiled language since FORTRAN was introduced. The golden age of scripting languages being used for applications have setted us back a few decades.