I'm writing this post to react to one of the many articles and threads about the presumed death of this or that programming language, library, framework, or tool. What that article was about and who wrote it is secondary. I could synthesize my idea by citing a well-known joke by Mark Twain: "The rumors about my death are greatly exaggerated."
I lately wrote some silly benchmarking code inspired by a brief article of Halim Shams, just to perform some quite dumb performance tests with multiple languages. The whole set of test code snippets is available here and includes C, Rust, Guile, Java, Perl, Tcl, Python, R, Octave, and Ruby programming languages, as available on Debian 12 (bookworm) distribution.