Whenever someone thinks about building databases, web servers or other high performance pieces of server software the natural assumption is that it has to be written in C or C++ (or maybe java). The argument is usually something along the lines of only C or C++ provides the necessary performance, scalability etc. I think this is fundamentally missing the point of what makes high performance and highly scalable server software.

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