interestingly, my takeaway from this article is that Nodejs isn't actually as slow as I thought. I thought Rust would be at least two orders of magnitude faster. It's barely just one, for the OPs benchmark.

how can it be possible that nodejs is so fast, or that rust isn't multiple orders of magnitude faster (again, for the OPs benchmark it's about 8-10x faster in one case, and only twice as faster in another, which is much faster, but I expected it to be more like 100x faster).

is v8 really that fast? I'd be curious to see a multi threaded version of this implemented (some arbitrary multi-threaded benchmark). there I would hope that rust is multiple orders of magnitude faster, given that node is single threaded (with some caveats, of course as anyone who knows node knows). surely the rust written wasn't written optimally.

given how easy it is to write typescript compared to Rust and Python imho, maybe the JS community isn't as crazy as I thought