It's not so much about it getting faster over time, it's about it NEVER getting slower, and never breaking.
That is something you want to have in your stack when you want to stay on latest and not get stuck on a rewrite 6 years down the road because it's TCO-slow and incompatible with the latest-and-greatest version that is finally fast.
Look no further than python and node to find languages that have notable performance regressions on new releases over time.
That is something you want to have in your stack when you want to stay on latest and not get stuck on a rewrite 6 years down the road because it's TCO-slow and incompatible with the latest-and-greatest version that is finally fast.
Look no further than python and node to find languages that have notable performance regressions on new releases over time.