Oops - that's a typo, I hope I got it right elsewhere.
"Droving" is admittedly a bit silly - herding probably makes more sense.
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"Droving" is admittedly a bit silly - herding probably makes more sense.
Performance is probably the last thing you need to care about when choosing a programming language for most businesses - unless you are doing hard-core analytics or handling huge scale, you just won't hit the sort of performance problems that are solved by a faster programming language (as opposed to a faster algorithm or architecture).
It really frustrates me that people _still_ put such weight on low level performance. In 1997 I had people saying "don't use Java, it's performance is far worse than C++". It was mostly untrue for business problems then - and computers are many orders of magnitude faster now.
However at $24, you'll get a number of keen backbone fans - but you won't get all the folks who are interested in backbone, and spine, and ember, and a pile of other frameworks; it's no longer a small enough price for an impulse purchase, so they'll stick to free tutorials.
The same thing applies to lots of other online purchases - I'll buy a vaguely-interesting phone app for $7, but probably not for $15.
The price point where people switch from "cheap as my daily coffee bill" to "the cost of a decent meal" will obviously vary from person to person, and from country to country. But I suspect that $24 is over that point for a lot of people.
(me, I'll probably buy it - but I'll think about it for a lot longer than I would at $5)