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Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions by frehpt on Sunday April 21, 2013 @05:48PM (#5586562)
> Go does't have 1/100000 the amount of libraries and support that Ruby or C does.

That's what they used to say about Java...

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Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions by threeseed on Sunday April 21, 2013 @06:01PM (#5586623)
Yes. Nearly 20 years ago.

But don't worry the JVM can save you. http://code.google.com/p/jgo/

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