unlike others, It is written in NodeJS, which is an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.
The main advantage is instead of a single binary, you have millions of files in the node_modules directory which is useful if you want to inspect the code.
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The main advantage is instead of a single binary, you have millions of files in the node_modules directory which is useful if you want to inspect the code.
> Why is it twice as fast? Or why can't the native library not be twice as fast?
> It’s implemented from scratch. The old client cannot be due to inefficient design of the internals, as well as years of maintaining legacy APIs!
Source: https://twitter.com/matteocollina/status/1361364063620628480