>Python is significantly slower than JavaScript I don't think there's anything inherent about either language that makes it faster or slower than the other, an

>Python is significantly slower than JavaScript I don't think there's anything inherent about either language that makes it faster or slower than the other, and it's not really fair to compare one high-performance implementation (Node) with another specific implementation (CPython) when there are other options. For example, have you compared Node vs. PyPy? In my experience they're very close.