> I was writing Rhino on the JVM before Node came out because I was absolutely convinced the world would move to server-side JavaScript.

> And I think now, I think a lot of the reason why people went into NPM was because the tooling in C was so terrible.

> Like, how do you compile a C program?

Are some interesting quotes and hint much more to lack of knowledge on server compiled languages than a "performance sketch".

Full podcast episode is here,

https://shows.acast.com/software-unscripted/episodes/tigerbe...