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Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages
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The thing is also that you can't separate a language from its ecosystem.
Because it is possible to write the fastest programs in C/C++ and Rust, folks that actually need the fastest performance will use these languages and will go around opening pull requests to fix performance problems in commonly-used libraries.
So, you do often end up with the most performant design anyways, just because the language itself is fast on paper.