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		busterarm on May 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python startup time: milliseconds matter Python is really only the target for those because someone lied to all of the systems folk and told them that Ruby was too slow. (The previous wave of infrastructure management tools seemed to all be written in Ruby and nowadays it's Python or Go.) That and python is one of the "official" languages at Google and everyone wants to be Google, right? Meanwhile, Ruby is making great strides in performance and even has JIT coming in 2.6.

rrcaptain on May 3, 2018 [–]

Not sure why you're saying Python was used as an alternative to Ruby when Python is older than Ruby.

busterarm on May 3, 2018 | [–]

Its popularity and its popularity specific to the mentioned use-case is not, for those that know their history.

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