[cies]

Not entirely true.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks

Has entries for JS and PHP quick high in the ranks.

[aphexairlines]

There's a super interesting article from the just-js author explaining how he got a JS implementation into that top 20: https://just.billywhizz.io/blog/on-javascript-performance-01...

[ceeplusplus]

The only JS entry I see in the top 20 uses a custom JS runtime that has "no support for ES modules". Not exactly a production ready application.

[capableweb]

That's moving the goal post though. The argument was "High performance != Any Scripting language", which is clearly not true.

[Tade0]

PHP achieves a decent 40% in the composite score table though:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

I suppose you'd need to have Facebook-level scale for infrastructure to cost more than development in a "faster" language.

[woojoo666]

Still high performance scripting though?