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by lobster_johnson 3235 days ago
You can forget about Node.js, Python or Ruby for any meaningful app, like a web API. Erlang/Elixir is also iffy, I'm pretty sure. Java, last I check, had a default heap size of 64MB, and does badly on less.

I've written small Go programs that can consume around 15-20MB on low traffic. But they also have huge spikes in memory usage when you have concurrent requests hitting them.