> at some point you will have a look into your myriad of nodejs dependencies and see with horror that they rely on C++ extension
This is a big selling point of the most boring languages of all, Java and C#. Performance is close enough to C, and FFI is painful enough, that its rare to see any native code in a project. Other languages that are slower or have better FFI have a much bigger risk of bitrot if you're going to keep a backend around for decades.
Where I work we deploy the exact same pre-built artifact to our Mac dev machines, Linux servers, and Windows QA guys. With Go, Python, JS, Ruby, etc we would have to have it built specifically for the platform. They all use enough native libraries that you can't share a zip file. And its a huge pain to cross-compile for anything except Linux.
This is a big selling point of the most boring languages of all, Java and C#. Performance is close enough to C, and FFI is painful enough, that its rare to see any native code in a project. Other languages that are slower or have better FFI have a much bigger risk of bitrot if you're going to keep a backend around for decades.
Where I work we deploy the exact same pre-built artifact to our Mac dev machines, Linux servers, and Windows QA guys. With Go, Python, JS, Ruby, etc we would have to have it built specifically for the platform. They all use enough native libraries that you can't share a zip file. And its a huge pain to cross-compile for anything except Linux.