Hello World API Performance Benchmark (Go, Node, Python, Rust)
Correction 2024-09-21: after using multi-stage build, Node image size dropped from 1.1GB to 130MB. The first programming language I achieved proficiency was Python, so for the longest time I’ve been using it to do most stuff. Last year I picked up Go, and I had a blast with it. This month I picked up Rust for data/ml works, and so far I was very impressed. It got me thinking - it’s been said multiple times is Python is slower than compiled languages, and Node is very easy to use but uses a lot of memory. Since I can code in multiple languages, why not do a simple API benchmark? So here’s the results. ...