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> If you care about performance that much you should be using neither.

Unfortunately by the time the coding industry understand this , we'll already have a fifth JS runtime that will promise to solve all the performance issues that exist within the 4 others...

Node.JS / Electron are some of my most favorite tech , but if I need performance I'll go with Kotlin / Go / Rust , it's just simpler IMHO.

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Unfortunately?? Y’all don’t know how good you have it. I work in Python and desperately wish there were multiple competing legitimately used Python runtimes. It’s slow as molasses and not getting faster because CPython has an overwhelming monopoly.

Node.js is getting faster, for free, because things like Deno and Bun exist.

I'm predominantly a React/Node/TS person by trade (just what I'm paid for), but like you I see this as a round peg square hole situation.

There are too many front-end JS frameworks and now it seems to be leaking to the backend as well in the form of runtimes. I'm just waiting for one of these groups to say "productivity is priority 1, followed by performance/security etc."

Because JS is sort of a nice sedan at its best - truly nice. But if you want a Ferrari, you're at the wrong dealership - that's a "you" problem.

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