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Bloated is the problem, not language speed. I may have misspoke, what I meant was speed in language never matters.

And the discord instance was because it was systems/performance critical software they rewrote. They didn’t rewrite there web APIs. Discord mentioned the rewrite is now rust with C++ glueing it together. No way you are using C++ unless you have to.

I’ll agree with you on python venv/pip. Ugh what a mess. I like cargo, but honestly I think you could argue cargo also is an issue. When you bring in 100 crates, you just gotta hope all the unsafe code in them are safe.

A static analyzer found 200 memory unsafety issues in rust crates: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-rust-safety/

Memory safe GC languages you don’t have to worry about that, and you can get a package manager.



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