Yeah, sorry, I meant in particular the convenience I’ve seen in the Python world. I know that you can call native code from Node.js, but the whole ecosystem isn’t really set up to do that, and the few times I’ve experimented with it it seemed quite clunky to me, but I really haven’t looked very much, so might totally be wrong. My guess is that the ecosystem is also just a lot younger, so even if you can do these things reliably now, you probably couldn’t a few years ago.
And yeah, using WASM you can get something similar going, though my guess is WASM is still going to be substantially slower than native code, at least for now.
Yeah, sorry, I meant in particular the convenience I’ve seen in the Python world. I know that you can call native code from Node.js, but the whole ecosystem isn’t really set up to do that, and the few times I’ve experimented with it it seemed quite clunky to me, but I really haven’t looked very much, so might totally be wrong. My guess is that the ecosystem is also just a lot younger, so even if you can do these things reliably now, you probably couldn’t a few years ago.
And yeah, using WASM you can get something similar going, though my guess is WASM is still going to be substantially slower than native code, at least for now.