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by regularfry 1646 days ago
They used to be at one point. Then the hype machine switched track. The thing that did it, from memory, was Twitter coming out and saying they'd switched away because they couldn't make it go fast enough. All of a sudden all the cool kids decided that execution speed was the only thing that mattered, and oh look, v8 can handle a tonne of connections without slowing down and the circus moved on.