Obvioulsy not, there are a few good good solutions to that, like running on the JVM or some other similar platform. It is not all about performance, languages can introduce new abstractions that can make a lot of difference.
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I am not sure about SEO exposure from TC, it certainly helps, but I would guess it is not as important as it used to be.
More quality posts wouldn't be enough imho, they should probably have/use more sub sites for what we consider noise and have the main site only talk about startups and related stories (maybe try to limit the number of stories per day, working a bit like a real newspaper in this respect). But it will probably never happen since it means less ad revenue.
Maybe it is too late anyway, I would guess the audience has changed a lot since it has broaden its topics selection, it wouldn't be considered a good judge of talent anymore, and I guess it isn't their primary goal anyway.
> TechCrunch now covers 10 times more seed-stage startups
quantity != quality
It used to have a lot less noise/signal ratio on TC, it used to have decent quality posts (and editors), and a TCrunched effect that barely exists now since a post gets buried quite fast given the post rate.
These days getting mentioned on TC doesn't do/mean much, you end up between a new iphone speculation or some non-story about [insert web giant here].