I do think Dart is the best of both worlds though. Having real types, not hacked together typescript stuff is very good. That's the other thing the nodejs ecosystem feels like a bunch of duct tape slap together again and again
It seems, through my experience, that Typescript isn’t “hacked together” as you imply. It’s just another Type-system, just like Java or C#’s?
This holds for "high-level" resources.Wwith the multi-threaded model you can share a single large immutable configuration object between all threads, or pass a database connection from one thread to another with close-to-zero cost.
Java and C# languages are a bit more CPU efficient. In the cloud computing world a website publisher pays real money for server CPU and RAM but can use the CPU and RAM on your computer or phone for free.
The weird transpilation system constantly breaks. I guess maybe one day they'll be better tooling around this, but it's not there yet. And I've worked with node in some capacity since 2013, things always feel fragmented and broken
BTW, with modern browsers, why would you need to transpile JS (as opposed to TS)?
A vast ecosystem of battle-tested libraries for one.