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The title of this post is amusing. Only "less memory leaks"? None would be nicer. (Also "fast" is relative. When you're known for one of the slowest interpreters getting large performance increases is easy. It would be better to bench against something that really is fast, like the JVM for example.)
Regardless of whether HN has too many 37Signals posts, this is a valid point. HN is worth a thousand uniques an hour and startups would do well to study the success of 37Signals in writing popular content. I say this as someone who finds 37Signals very off putting!
This. He reads like a 14 year old boy who's been jilted by his first girlfriend. Do grown mean really need a website for "working through my sadness about opportunities lost" when they change primary programming language?
He's such a source of drama; the Scala community is better off without him.