you might want to check it out again! the latest code is more mature and hopefully easier to use. it is though very much designed to be a lower level SDK rather than an all-singing/dancing higher level platform like node.js or deno.
also, your assertion re. C is incorrect - the C/C++ is mostly boilerplate and wrappers around C libraries and syscalls. postgres driver and http framework completely written in JS. still lots of work to do and you are right it is not "usable" in sense of it having little to no development resources right now but i find it very useful for building many things personally.
JS on V8 is very very fast.
round 21 code
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
postgres driver
https://github.com/just-js/libs/blob/main/pg/pg.js
