It has worked perfectly fine with compiled languages until someone had the idea to use V8 outside of the browser. In fact it still does, I only use node when f

It has worked perfectly fine with compiled languages until someone had the idea to use V8 outside of the browser. In fact it still does, I only use node when forced to do so by project delivery where "backend" implies something like Next.js full stack, or React apps running on iframes from SaaS products.