Comment by krumbie

It's definitely not objectively better. For normal workflows, the startup latency is a real hindrance, even if the community has collectively built norms around that which help a bit (keeping a long running repl session open, etc.). But in terms of expressiveness plus attainable performance it really is hard to beat. I think it's nice that the path from quick draft to really performant code is continuous, and not a big gap like switching languages.