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JavaScript is perfectly capable to run on the backend. Many people/companies do it with great satisfaction.



Yeah I'm aware that it works. I'm just saying it's a bad choice. It's slower than most other languages, the language itself is just plain bad, the standard library is poor, npm isn't great, there's really just no good reason to use it other than "our devs don't know anything else".




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