Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

One part I took issue with is “elite priesthood of Rust and Zig developers” .. I love Rust and hope everyone working on interpreted / high level / “easy” languages knows Rust is accessible and doable for most developers, especially in sync land.

You can benefit from 1000x (!) speed ups just rewriting sync Python in sync Rust, in my measured experience, because the compiler helps exponentially more the more abstract your code is, and Rust can absolutely do high level systems.

The main blocker is when you’re missing some library because it doesn’t exist in Rust, but that’s almost always a big opportunity for open source innovation

most of the python code that would benefit from goign faster is already written to use libraries written in C anyway, I doubt you would get x1000 out of them like that (I'd be happy to be proven wrong if you have examples though)

> exponentially more

No.

The word means something.

It's bad enough when it gets misused colloquially e.g. by folks on Twitter and clueless podcasters trying to spice up their talking points, but in a thread like this one, it has no place getting dropped into the discussion except if talking about something that actually fits an exponential curve.