Comment by k__
7 hours ago
"it picked up its users mostly from the Python/Ruby/JS world rather than C/C++/Java"
And with the increasing performance of Bun, it seems that Go is about to get a whooping by JS.
(Which isn't really true, as most of the Bun perf comes from Zig, but they are targeting JS Devs.)
Runtimes like Bun, Deno, or type systems like TypeScript don’t change the fact it’s still JS underneath — a crappily designed language that should’ve never left throwable frontend code.
None of these runtimes make JS anywhere even close to single-threaded Go perf, let alone multithreaded (goroutine) perf.
JS is perfectly designed for what it does, frontend and non-CPU-intensive backend code. It's never going to reach singlethreaded Golang perf.
JavaScript was never designed for non-browser usage. It’s the community’s unquenchable thirst to use the same language everywhere that brought us here.
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