True, I didn’t structure my sentence correctly.

It gets to compete with Java and Python because it’s also JIT is what I meant to say.

Absolutely, it’s just one aspect of it, benchmarks are always narrow in scope. Some languages may be good at some things and worse at others.

Oh PHP is hands down one of the slowest languages out there. It’s just convenient because it’s easy to host, but it’s awful to use and it’s really slow.

Here, have a chart:

In this chart, where the benchmark is calculating digits of π, Java is faster than JS, but there are cases where it’s the opposite.

https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison?tab=readme-ov-file

Node.js is really not a bad backend language, since it’s JIT, it’s actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.

Rust will definitely have the advantage of being a compiled language though.

Source: I write both Java and TS backend code, have done benchmarks.

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And those same people will often also refuse to pay for services.

It’s a pay or become the product world out there, site hosting ain’t free.

Could you cite the reports for us?

There’s no way to otherwise make this work for many users. They can use Tor if they’re worried.

Nah.

I’m a full-stack software developer working in the financial sector, their statement is factual.

Companies will never want to take on liability that has the potential to bankrupt them. It is in their best interest to not reveal the version of libraries they are using as some versions may have publicly known vulnerabilities, and it would make it incredibly easy for attackers to build an exploit chain if they knew the exact versions being used.

Securing client code is just as important as securing server code, as you don’t want to expose your users to potential XSS attacks that could affect the way the page gets displayed, or worse, leak their credentials to a third party. If this happened in the EU or some parts of Canada, and it’s been found that the company reduced their threat model “for the sake of openness”, they would likely be fined into bankruptcy or forced to leave the market.

Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where your interests and ethics will never be aligned with those of service owners as they are held to a certain standard by privacy laws and other regulations.

They lost me when they started letting Nazis sit at the table.

I mean it’s good for predicting climate models, but it certainly uses a lot of power to do so, which is the main issue with AI.

It’s just an Android device technically, which means you can probably break into it

Have you tried Kagi?

I hate the name, I keep reading it as “Woke”.

I don’t trust projects that can’t translate their project properly, especially in English / French / German / Chinese where translators and correctors are plentiful.

Maybe I’m just an entitled French / English speaker, but I do make sure I find good translators and correctors for the most common languages for my projects.

ITT: People who think they know better than security researchers

I debated posting there, I think I’ll crosspost

Android is not Linux, it is derived from it. The two are not API compatible, and Android ripped out most of what made Linux Linux to be able to support binary blob drivers, direct Dalvik JVM support in the kernel and other funky stuff.

It’s as much Linux as macOS’ XNU kernel is FreeBSD.

Plop!