Some of the newer ASGI frameworks are actually pretty good performance-wise. I haven't touched Node.js in years and recently needed a backend for an iOS project

Some of the newer ASGI frameworks are actually pretty good performance-wise. I haven't touched Node.js in years and recently needed a backend for an iOS project with a lot of geoJSON processing, used FastAPI and found it excellent. While Python is far from perfect it opens you up to a diverse ecosystem from AI/ML/Geo/science communities.