It seems there are just two clubs: you go with bare metal (Rust, C# native AOT) or you use some higher level abstraction (virtual machine, garbage collector) an

It seems there are just two clubs: you go with bare metal (Rust, C# native AOT) or you use some higher level abstraction (virtual machine, garbage collector) and then there is no significant difference between Java, Node, Go or Python. For me Python worked surprisingly well, while Go was surprisingly high on memory consumption.