API Calls & Framework... IDK

Inexperienced programmer (just started a week ago, no shit I'm just now understanding why classes rock so hard.). If making API calls to linked libraries in statically compiled binaries is faster than using a framework that uses JiT compilation... why do so many people push for the framework and JiT compilation?

I'm not trying to start anything, but I'm seriously curious as to why the later is the preferred choice.

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Forget every other post. I'm telling you right now, functional programming was made as a toy for AI research and is not big anywhere. Everything in the real world is done using OOP and shittastic languages nobody likes. We're all a bunch of idealist computer scientists that wish it wasn't so.

Now that that's over,
Read SICP!
If it ain't Lisp, it's shit!