Measure the startup overhead of different programming languages
Python 49%
C 45%
Assembly 2%
Makefile <1%
Zig <1%
Rust <1%
Hare <1%
Haskell <1%
Go <1%
Pony <1%
Lean <1%
D <1%

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How much pain will the programmer take to make the program run fast?

See timings.

Findings #

Rust depends on libc.

Everything that depends on libc is slower than C.