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>> However, no dynamic language can match the speed of carefully written static code in a language like Rust.

>> Any blanket statement of the form "static languages are better at x than dynamic languages" is almost certainly nonsense.

> Those two quoted statements come from the article.

I think author had in mind "ALL static languages are better at x than ALL dynamic languages" as a nonsense. He probably didn't have in mind that "A static language_ IS better at x than A dynamic language_" is a nonsense.



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