> Add internal politics where some things which are heavily multi threaded built in staticly compiled languages had to be built in single threaded nodejs because everyone is using nodejs and your language is now banned it's not surprising there's noticeable performance differences, it was certainly predicated early on but they where to caught up trying to be google and using the popular language to hire as many people as possible and terminated anyone raising valid concerns i.e it's slow and node wasn't right.
What languages were banned? This is a very interesting data point.
FYI, I have huge problems with your products at work. We use a variety of your products and competing products, on a project-by-project basis. I always advocate for your competitors.
One reason is that you made the business decision to attempt customer lock-in. You supported wikimedia-style text markup in your wiki (in addition to the GUI) so that people could migrate to your stuff, and then you took out that feature so that people would have trouble leaving. I'm sure that makes sense to an MBA, but I have been discouraging use of your products all throughout a large company.
The other reason is that yes, all your stuff is slow as fuck. OMG it is slow. The Java grows to consume gigabytes for no damn reason, and it munches CPU time, and generally it sucks pretty hard.
Golang might be right for you. I think it's the fastest choice available for development teams that can't handle stuff like pointers. On the other hand, I think you would still manage to sort-of-leak memory by hanging on to references that you really don't need.
I think you could fix the slowness problem by requiring all development and testing to be done on computers that are slower than the ones your customers use. Get an old Pentium II with 256 MiB of RAM... which is still overkill for the task at hand. Remember, back in the day we ran stuff like your products on computers with 8 MiB or less and a 486 or less. You can live with a Pentium II and 256 MiB of RAM, and the resulting performance of your software will delight your customers.
I'm skeptical that there isn't another side of this story or at least less absolute terms used.
For example, maybe there's a push against everyone using all their own favourites everywhere. I can see a strong argument for, "please stop writing in Foo. We use Java, Go, Python, and C++. Pick the right one of those for the job at hand. We all benefit from using a common set of tools."
I'm not denying what you're saying. Just feeling a healthy skepticism that they "ban" languagues without a good faith objective.
I’d probably stop talking on this thread if I were you. If your management chain sees this, you’ll have at minimum a conversation about using judgement when speaking in a public forum, at worst, your comments might be used as justification for disciplinary action.
Disparaging your former employer might also be against your employment agreement and doesn’t make you look good either. Just giving a friendly heads up!
What languages were banned? This is a very interesting data point.