[y4mi]

> C/Rust/Go version

Minor nitpick: JS/V8 beats Go in most benchmarks that are relevant for search.

JS is the outlier here however, because of the insane amount of optimizations that made it perform so unreasonably well, despite being an interpreted language.

[tgv]

I've never seen such a benchmark. Which one is it?

[y4mi]

It obviously depends on how you've implemented the feature, but there are a lot of cpmparitive benchmarks if you bother to put "go vs JS Performance benchmark" into the search bar and press enter. The language itself doesn't make code performance however, so you'll have good and bad implementations in any language you go with.

I.e. specifically regex, which is highly relevant in searching through strings: https://github.com/mariomka/regex-benchmark

And the always interesting techempower Project, which leaves the implementation to participants of each round. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...

Choose whatever category you wish there, js is faster then go in almost all categories there.

Even though I said it before, I'm going to repeat myself as I expect you to ignore my previous message: the language doesn't make any implementation fast or slow. You can have a well performing search engine in go and JS. The performance difference will most likely not be caused by the language with these two choices. And the same will apply with C/Rust. The language won't make the engine performant and creating a maximally performant search engine is hard. But a theoretically perfect implementation would likely be fastest in C/Rust, followed by the usual suspects such as Go/Java/C#/JS and finally ending with all other interpreted languages such as ruby and python

[tgv]

Regex doesn't feature in this kind of library, at least not in mine. It's a token by token comparison/weighing, for which regular expressions are unsuitable. Mine looks at string prefixes and does a Levenshtein comparison on the results, and I think OP's project does that too.

The techempower benchmarks seem geared towards http backend server frameworks. There's only one Javascript framework that scores well, "just-js", but that's a bit low-level for a framework. I don't think it says much about text search performance.

> the language doesn't make any implementation fast or slow

Not ignoring that, but I think it's half true (you can't have a well performing app in native Python, basically, but a bad implementation will also cost a lot of performance). JS is fast enough for most tasks, that's true.

[Aeolun]

> the language doesn't make any implementation fast or slow

I think some languages are much easier to make things fast in than others. Even if the theoretical limit is the same (or nearly the same) in all languages.

Messing up somewhere in Javascript with async isn’t unlikely.