nemesis wrote:
> Languages like python and ruby abuse of their dynamic nature by going
> beyond just dynamic typing and allowing all kinds of funky and slow
> runtime
> metaprogramming.  A native compiler has no chance here.

But also, languages like python and ruby are often used where performance
doesn't really matter. Last I checked, the de-facto implementation (CPython
interpreter) doesn't even do constant folding.

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