I feel concerned by this new trend of using slow languages/stacks and the "we'll fix it later" mantra. I can't believe there are webpages such as reddit with such horribly awful generation times, do their tech guys sleep well at night?
This is not a new trend. This is a trend since the dawn of, well, as long as I've been programming, ~20 years now. Turns out that most of the time there are many more important things than your stack or language speed, and yes, often times "fix it later" is the right tradeoff.
On the other hand, there are things where "fix it later" just won't work. Especially when it comes to scalability, which has to be considered right from the start to get it right.
I'm surprised you would mention Reddit in this context. It seems to me they're one of the lightest websites out there, which is not really surprising seeing they're mostly serving text. Reddit and HN are pretty much the only two websites which are useable on my Raspberry Pi 2s.
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