Many customers, who pay for software development, think that some programming languages are fast, while others are slow and when they need a great/fast/awesome application, they need to use the language some other team has been using before and managed to create some other great application. This is the wrong approach. Instead, when you choose the language pay attention to how it matches your business objectives. Whether your project is going to be alive for a month or a few years, how big will be your team, how much money do you have to hire experts, how disciplined is your management style, etc. Almost any language can create a fast application, but not any language is suitable for disciplined management.
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