The whole rise of memcached and NoSQL should pretty clearly indicate that many developers are finding their database to be the bottleneck.
There's much less of a push for high performance languages, even though there are many that are also quite nice to work with (eg, Clojure). Since this is a Python discussion, searching for "Django PyPy" and "Django NoSQL" should be instructive.
You're combining a false dichotomy with snark, which really shouldn't have a place here on HN.
The whole rise of memcached and NoSQL should pretty clearly indicate that many developers are finding their database to be the bottleneck.
There's much less of a push for high performance languages, even though there are many that are also quite nice to work with (eg, Clojure). Since this is a Python discussion, searching for "Django PyPy" and "Django NoSQL" should be instructive.
You're combining a false dichotomy with snark, which really shouldn't have a place here on HN.