> I think your "ease of iteration" point will still probably win for PHP vs any compiled language.
While I don't think you can beat straight php/js/python for this, there's still a lot of room for improvement over the rust/c++ magnitude of compile times.
For example Go/OCaml/Common Lisp (at least, SBCL is a compiler, there are lisp interpreters), all have reasonably quick compile times. And the latter two have repls, which really does help improve the iteration cycle.
I haven't had to play with crystal, where does it fall on this spectrum?
While I don't think you can beat straight php/js/python for this, there's still a lot of room for improvement over the rust/c++ magnitude of compile times.
For example Go/OCaml/Common Lisp (at least, SBCL is a compiler, there are lisp interpreters), all have reasonably quick compile times. And the latter two have repls, which really does help improve the iteration cycle.
I haven't had to play with crystal, where does it fall on this spectrum?