Comment by zahlman

> the famous example of quadratic performance degradation in parsing a JSON file when the GTA V game starts -- something that a fan had to decompile and fix themselves.

I actually hadn't heard this story. Is the gamedev world still averse to using proper modern C++ with basic tools like std::map and std::vector (never mind whatever else they've added since C++11 or so when I stopped paying attention)? Or else how exactly did they manage to mess it up? (And how big are the JSON files that this really matters, anyway?)

> IMO both bash and Ruby are quite fine for basic scripting... if you don't care about startup time.

`time bash -c ''` is only a couple of milliseconds on my system. The slow thing about a bash script, usually, is how much of the work you do by shelling out to other commands.