I wish speed mattered more, but JavaScript on Nodejs is performant enough for 95% of websites out there. Most websites are in the long tail, and never need to handle more than about 10 requests per second. For most websites, team velocity matters more than the AWS bill.
A clean static rendering system with caching, built on top of react / svelte / whatever performs well enough for almost everyone. And every year cpu costs drop, V8 gets faster and JS libraries get a little bit more mature.
I love rust, but I don’t see it displacing nodejs any time soon. Maybe when websites can be 100% wasm and the rust web framework ecosystem matures some more. Fingers crossed, but I’m not holding my breath.
A clean static rendering system with caching, built on top of react / svelte / whatever performs well enough for almost everyone. And every year cpu costs drop, V8 gets faster and JS libraries get a little bit more mature.
I love rust, but I don’t see it displacing nodejs any time soon. Maybe when websites can be 100% wasm and the rust web framework ecosystem matures some more. Fingers crossed, but I’m not holding my breath.