> javascript is only obviously better if you want to use the tradeoffs javascript offers: an implicit and unchangeable async runtime that doesn't offer parallelism and relies on a jit interpreter.

Yes - I certainly wouldn’t use JavaScript to compile and ship binaries to end users. But as an application developer, i think the tradeoffs it makes are pretty great. I want fast iteration (check!). I want all libraries in the ecosystem to just work and interoperate out of the box (check!). And I want to be able to just express my software using futures without worrying I’m holding them wrong.

Even in systems software I don’t know if I want to be picking my own future executor. It’s like, the string type in basically every language is part of the standard library because it makes interoperability easy. I wish future executors in rust were in std for the same reason - so we could stop arguing about it and just get back to writing code.