>>13125914>It's like saying we should all use fuel inefficient vehicles, just because they're easier to drive.the oil industry would prefer you did that.
my point is software is about making money. you don't make money by making your client side web app faster. they have 8gb of ram, you use those 8 gb of ram
if you make your web backend faster by moving from python to c++ how much money do you really save? you **might** save money on hardware costs because you can use cheaper hardware, but maybe your application is i/o bound so it doesn't change at all
there was some market research that suggested as long as you're under some latency people will put up with your site, but after i forget how many ms you start losing money. your goal is to stay under that magic number
java devs were easier to hire, python devs are easier to hire. writing an application in c++ costs too much money
tuned c++ code gives you performance but easier to write languages = faster to market, easier to hire, less surface for bugs
it is better to shit out something that takes up lots of resources now, than it is to make your code marginally faster
it's ALL about making money
