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It is a big part of any language promotion. I remember some Ruby guy claiming that developers are 100 times more productive in Ruby. Yeah right.


It feels like at least 100x if you are trying to scrape a website and do stuff with the data, and you are comparing C and Ruby...


And it feels like 0.0001% if you want to write a fast device driver, game, or anything else performant.




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