rewrite it in rust might be a joke -- but damn most the massive improvements in ...

pjmlp · 2026-09-06T12:29:40 1788697780

They are only surprising for anyone that never used any ahead of time compiled language since FORTRAN was introduced.

The golden age of scripting languages being used for applications have setted us back a few decades.

thephyber · 2026-09-05T23:37:29 1788651449

Now we rewrite the web in Rust WASM. /s

But seriously, Python and JavaScript have reflection/introspection features. Once the investment was made to transcribe the entire language into a compiled language, the speed gains were obviously going to happen.

pjmlp · 2026-09-06T12:30:30 1788697830

They also exist in compiled languages without the performance impact of scripting languages.