pmilot

The language used for a server backend is far from a guarantee of efficiency and performance. It's very easy to write a D or Rust backend that doesn't optimize queries and handles caching badly; you'll get just as terrible response times from those as you would on the "typical" slow websites that you refer to.

Mob programming sounds rather inefficient to me, but I'll freely admit that I have never tried it myself. It might give good results if your team is disciplined and talented, but can't that be said of all approaches to team programming?

Thank you for this. I know what I'm reading for the next two months!

In your original post, you mention one of the goals being able to contribute a patch to a modern OS such as BSD or Linux. After your experiment, do you feel like this is the case?