Node has improved greatly in last two years. They always had native JSON support. Now have native test runner, watch, fetch, working on permission system à la deno, added WebSockets and working on native SQLite driver. All of this makes it a really attractive platform for prototyping which scales from hello world without any dependencies to production.

Good luck experimenting with Rust without pulling half the internet with it.

E: and they’re working on native TS support