Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
by stephengillie on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:45PM
(#17088035)
No other language executes in browsers for historic reasons.[0] And there is reduced friction to developing all parts of the stack in a single language. Not all Javascript developers support the current state of the Node ecosystem.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051521