[mildmotive]

I only partially agree, an interpreted language can act as a hinderance when doing optimisations, for various reasons.

But how we write the code also matters of course.

Furthermore, competency also costs money. I’m not saying this to be mean to people abusing REST calls.

[mjburgess]

Most code is so bad that "optimization" isnt the issue, at least in no sense that a language/runtime would help with.

It's just designed with O(N^3) architectures, "servers on servers" and "callbacks on callbacks", etc. because, seemingly, new features are made by very jnr developers -- who glue these idiot-proof frameworks together ---- trading needed-knowhow for polynomial behaviour.