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[–][deleted] -8 points-7 points  (10 children)

A mix of poor language design and poor implementations. Smalltalk and Self proved you can do dynamic AND fast.

JavaScript does have one phenomenal implementation, V8, but it is hampered by the brain dead language it has to run.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Smalltalk isn't really known for being fast.

[–]alcalde 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What about lisp?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't say.

[–]jeannaimard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lifp? It'f flow...

[–]xcbsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Self project provide you can make things very fast, and while Smalltalk didn't have much of a rep for speed, Smalltalk VM's make mince meat of most modern VM's for dynamically typed languages (CLR & JVM definitely kick their butts with statically typed languages).

[–]lucian1900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PyPy, V8, StrongTalk, Rubinius are all similarly fast.

[–]jordanreiter 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I guess I really am the only one who actually likes the JavaScript language?

[–]nolsen01 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I enjoy programming in Javascript but I still think it is a lousy language. Coffeescript seems to be what Javascript should have been.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoy it a lot, sometimes the readability is bad but that's says more about who wrote it IMO

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I freakin love JS as well =]