Eco-Friendly Fast Lane: Go, Rust & Swift Are Leaving PHP, Node.js And Python In The Dust

When I had to write a performance critical part of a web app around 15 years ago, my only serious option was C/C++. It was an application that had to process tens of thousands of files in a relatively short period and store them on multiple Linux servers. Back then, the decision to write a web application in C/C++ was a well-considered decision. I would only write web apps in C/C++ when there was no way around it. The complexities of multi threading and memory management in C/C++ meant development took way…