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It's been a long time since 2023, when Bun.js arrived and disrupted the JavaScript world. During that time, I was working on something unusual—something that encourages all JS developers to write API code that actually runs on top of Rust.

I gave it my best and eventually published this framework on npm. Many people asked for async support, and after countless sleepless nights, I finally achieved it.

Have a look at this framework—still in beta, experimental, and currently working only on Linux, Windows, and ARM T4 on AWS. Brahma-JS is one of my favorite creations, and it has literally edged past uWebSockets.js.

At the same time, I’ve been thinking about the future of Node.js. It has dominated for the past 16 years, going through many ups and downs. I’m truly happy to be a part of this ecosystem and of npm.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I swear there was an XKCD for this. Not the frameworks one. One about being a "monster" for making another JS framework.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

The standard xkcd on making another thing:

https://xkcd.com/927

On frameworks specifically, I recommend the song:

We're gonna build a framework,
cause we wanna use one,
but don't wanna choose one

We're gonna build a framework
We didn't like the others,
So we'll write another

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It has dominated for the past 16 years

OP certainly has a funny definition of the word dominated.

green is python

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Except Python’s growth is from data science, not web dev (the subject of OP’s post, and the context in which JS is “dominating”)

Edit:

More relevant chart:

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I just stated python's color in the graph cause it wasn't in the legend. Nothing more.