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frehpt on April 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby is too slow for programming competitions

> Go does't have 1/100000 the amount of libraries and support that Ruby or C does.

That's what they used to say about Java...

threeseed on April 21, 2013 [–]

Yes. Nearly 20 years ago.

But don't worry the JVM can save you. http://code.google.com/p/jgo/

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