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by re-thc 1030 days ago
> Why would someone use this over much more maintainable and performant backends in Go or Rust?

They were already using NodeJs or would have. And that's a large part of the current ecosystem.

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Yeah it’s a silly question. It’s like going into a python thread and being like “why didn’t you implement all of this in Go or Rust?” Well, there’s a thousand reasons, and it’s really not even worth the time to unwrap this very reductive question that is really only going to turn into a language flame war for no reason.