> And I said I disagree because language directly impacts things like performance. And it does, massively. Like, order of magnitude differences are not hard to achieve simply by changing language.

Only because you focus too much into the frontend, instead of the whole compiler infrastructure, with multiple frontends for the same compilation pipeline.

> I still am not understanding the offshoaring conversation.

Because you never had to review human written code by cheap offshoring teams, zero difference with LLM generated code quality, even today.