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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by koonsolo on Saturday May 15, 2021 @02:14PM (#27167540)
> Node is not ECMAScript in a server-side ECMAScript engine, it's JavaScript in a browser JavaScript engine.

Why would your custom ECMAScript server be any faster or more stable than any of the existing browser engines? If you look at the resources behind those engines, I don't know who would match that effort doing the same on the server.

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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by paulryanrogers on Saturday May 15, 2021 @02:50PM (#27167839)
My guess is the browser JS engines are optimized for quick compilation and execution. While a backend engine could optimize for longer, persist runtime.
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