Comment by pjmlp

One lesson I took from the first .com wave in the early 2000 was never to use a scripting language for application software again.

Performance might not be on the top list, but when it comes usually a full re-write might be the only way out, as it was on our case.

Depending on the overall business situation such re-rewrite can have a huge impact on the company, due to shift on the development resources.

Since then, I only advice languages that have either JIT or AOT compilers available to them.