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by jikbd 1708 days ago
Because developers of the JavaScript world wouldn’t find the performance of django or rails acceptable.
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xet7 1708 days ago
Rails/Ruby performance has improved:

https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond...

Alhough, compiling Javascript to binary makes code even faster https://nectar.js.org , although I wish that project would get more love with bugfixes https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs/issues

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Jensson 1708 days ago
Then wouldn't there be a good use case for a performant version in Javascript? Javascript runtime is much faster than either Python or Javascript, so just doing the same thing would be a huge improvement.
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montblanc 1702 days ago
I doubt that many JS developers know or care much about performance. If performance is that important you have Java/Go/C++ ...why use Node?
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