Baldur Nil

Only Brazil is there because it has a big population.

I think when it comes to tooling, some Linux tools are actually BSD software that works because of POSIX compliance. An example is OpenSSH.

The mental model I have about performance is that the higher abstraction usually beats the lower level abstraction.

So in that sense, a well architected software with proper caching, multithreading where it matters etc. will beat badly architected software (ex: one that brute forces everything). Then, that being equal, good algorithms and solutions beat bad ones. Only then faster runtimes make more of a difference, and at the bottom things like more efficient processor architectures, more efficient compiler etc. beat slower ones.

A good example is Lemmy itself, which as far as I know was made in Rust to be super fast, but then at the beginning was being DDOSed quite easily because of the way the database was designed and lots of queries were very slow. Once they fixed that, Lemmy became actually usable.

“Any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion” (Gene Kim)

As much as I do like programming in Java, you have a good point.

Or anything that downloads code from an untrusted source…

Don’t any linux DE have something like a shortcuts app?

So many websites out there are built on Django, Flask, etc. (YouTube must have spent a decade using Python, Instagram, Threads etc. all use Python and optimize as they need).

Mojo is surfing on the AI hype, so only time will tell whether it lives to fulfill the expectation.

As a programmer myself, sometimes collaborate isn’t as easy as just “add features to it”. You might not like the choice of technologies and architecture of the other app or just have a different design taste that might prevent that. Besides, the original wonder might not like the changes you want to add abs reject it etc.