Ruby <> slow

To all the shitheads saying "Ruby is slow" as fuck:
"Ruby is slow" is a myth. Ruby is slow for certain types of problems, but there are ways to fix this by being a competent programmer and also by using wrapper classes of fast C/C++ or Java libraries and also by not using Ruby for problems it is ill-suited to.

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Why use Ruby when you can use C? Are you serious?

Ruby code may be slower, but it is faster to write. The tradeoff is obvious: programmer time vs CPU time.