My JavaScript Is Faster Than Your Rust

Source: trust me bro

The key paragraph:

> After optimizations, the Rust FaaS runtime ended up being >70% faster while using >90% less memory than our reference Node.js implementation. But the key is ‘after optimizations’, the initial implementation was slower.

This article is "Poorly written Rust performed slower than Javascript". Which isn't news.

Programmers have been bickering for literally decades about X versus Y, and whether scripting is really programming or just pretend programming, et cetera. Pro tip: The language isn't as important as the compiler or interpreter. You can write an interpreter to run C as a script. You can compile Javascript. You can write an interpreter to run a usally compiled language into an interpreted language, and vice versa.