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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by pjmlp on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:30AM (#23114054)
And other people don't get it is possible to have high level languages and almost C like performance.

You don't need to give up on JIT and AOT compilation to use high level languages, and this is where current tooling for Ruby and Python ends up losing.

Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by Doxin on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:26AM (#23140000)
Fair enough, I've been playing with D a lot lately, which is basically "what if python was a C dialect instead". It's an incredibly simple language to learn but it's no less easy to write in than python. For most things I still reach for python though, probably because I've grown comfortable with duck typing.

side-note when starting with D: make sure to install dub. it's the package manager and basically eliminates makefiles from the compilation process. Just "dub init" and "dub run" and you're off to the races.