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I'd prefer my tools to use languages that are compiled + memory safe. Basically that just leaves rust or go.

But rust also has other features that can help prevent bugs regarding concurrency and more. So rust is a feature in my book and not just an implementation detail.

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I agree, but there's still plenty of alternatives. Pre-compiling languages like C# and Java will already provide a speed bonus, and with stuff like GraalVM's native images and Kotlin native you can squeeze even more performance out of these GC'd languages.

At this point in time, improvement comes from "anything faster than node". Hell, you might even manage to get a performance benefit out of PHP with the way things are right now.

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Is go not compiled and memory safe?

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