esbuild is a bit unfair example because Go is really great fit for this kind of job, it does a lot of I/O, it allocates a lot, and then it just dies. evanw even

esbuild is a bit unfair example because Go is really great fit for this kind of job, it does a lot of I/O, it allocates a lot, and then it just dies. evanw even tried to use Rust at first but it was slower than Go version. IMHO, if JS had struct types, the difference could be much smaller. Dead proposal here: https://github.com/rbuckton/proposal-struct https://github.com/rbuckton/proposal-struct