Yes, 0.99 performance being consumed by the interpreter.

And I just fear projects that will use Node.js for complicated domains like banking. Yes, there are people this kind of nuts in the market.

They are willing to set up in the US to exploit cheap US labor and low taxes.

People are talking about Java, but the majority of programming languages are memory safe nowadays. Go satisfies this requirement, for example.

Actually, in order to test your assumption, you’d need to quantitatively measure skill, which per se is something already problematic, but you’d also need to run a statistical test to confirm the distribution is a normal/Gaussian distribution. People always forget the latter and often produce incorrect statistical inferences.

After many years, after working like a slave in the industry for barely any recognition and for people that thought on profit was bigger than us human beings, I can only have respect for the man.