A misunderstanding of the technology is also a risk. Former Twitter engineer Alex Payne’s claim that Ruby was slow continues to haunt general conversations about Ruby to this day
The more things change, the more they stay the same! Chatter about slow will hang on even when the facts contradict.
I find it hilarious that people STILL criticise scripting languages for being slow. I mostly build sites in PHP - it's not a great language, it's not a fast language, but it really doesn't matter - page loads bottleneck on DB or front-end long before PHP's execution time becomes a problem, even without an opcode cache!
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A misunderstanding of the technology is also a risk. Former Twitter engineer Alex Payne’s claim that Ruby was slow continues to haunt general conversations about Ruby to this day
The more things change, the more they stay the same! Chatter about slow will hang on even when the facts contradict.
I find it hilarious that people STILL criticise scripting languages for being slow. I mostly build sites in PHP - it's not a great language, it's not a fast language, but it really doesn't matter - page loads bottleneck on DB or front-end long before PHP's execution time becomes a problem, even without an opcode cache!