Absolutely. I don’t know if it’s the absolute best, but I very much agree for using a high-level language for high-level tasks. There’s a reason they’re designed that way—you’re not burning Hertz, dang it; you’re burning seconds, and you’re burning them either way!
That said, please, please don’t use it for performance critical code.
I’d argue, 99% of the code written is not performance critical in the sense that a different language could help. Either performance really doesn’t matter that much, or it’s an IO problem. You can process as fast as you want, if the DB takes 100ms to respond, you won’t get below 100ms overall.
Absolutely. I don’t know if it’s the absolute best, but I very much agree for using a high-level language for high-level tasks. There’s a reason they’re designed that way—you’re not burning Hertz, dang it; you’re burning seconds, and you’re burning them either way!
That said, please, please don’t use it for performance critical code.
I’d argue, 99% of the code written is not performance critical in the sense that a different language could help. Either performance really doesn’t matter that much, or it’s an IO problem. You can process as fast as you want, if the DB takes 100ms to respond, you won’t get below 100ms overall.