Yeah, it's strange how only 2 years ago or so, both ruby and javascript scored rock bottom on Alioth Shootout, with javascript scoring 4 times slower than ruby, and ruby 3 times slower than python. Two years later and there's 7 interpreters for ruby and 4 for javascript.
Re:How to Pick a Language
by silentbicycle on Friday January 23, 2009 @09:44AM
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There's something to be said for trying to make an expressive language and worrying about how to make it efficient later. Only working with stuff you know you can do efficiently can lead to getting stuck in local maxima.
* Is the language having the most important performance gains lately.
* Growing support from both corporate (Yahoo, Apple, Google) and free software (Mozilla) camps.
* Gains market with HTML 5 (just the canvas element alone makes a huge difference for JS based software.)
* Better frameworks for both UI and client-server software.
It's funny how things turn.