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		dkarl 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go away Python I always assumed a runtime specialized for highly concurrent, fault-tolerant, long-running processes would have a noticeable startup penalty, which is one of the things that bothers me about Python. Is that something you notice with Gleam?

antsinmypants 17 days ago [–]

I tried out Gleam for Advent of Code this year. There was a significant difference in startup times, about 13 ms for Python and 120 ms for Gleam.

If you want something with minimal startup times then you need a language that complies to native binaries like Zig, Rust or OCaml.

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