Would you use JavaScript compiled to C for your server applications

What about nodejs? Do you think the performance would be better with javascript compiled to c?

I like Javascript, I write a lot of it. The progress that has been made through the years is pretty remarkable. Sometimes its hard to believe.

That said, javascript handles every number as a 64 bit float. For a lot of applications, that just doesn't matter. But to me, it does... its caused a lot of heart aches in my life, and for that I want to keep a better language for my server.

With servers being a commodity these days, I can only think of rare use cases where this would be helpful vs just scaling horizontally behind a load balancer. Also, in most real world systems I have seen, the real bottle neck is in the I/O and rarely in the business logic or server application level.

Forget the frontend. Just make it work 'faster' than node.js and people will use it.

If you're going to be writing it, prepare your release by writing at least 5 applications with it too.

Sounds good to me. Might try it out.