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		bdcravens on June 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Docker... You're painting a false dichotomy. There are lighter-weight options, like Go.

tracker1 on June 14, 2019 [–]

There's also Rust, C/C++, D, and others. It's not exactly a false dichotomy as I'm pretty sure GP and others who bring up these tropes against Node do use other scripted or higher level languages that have an even bigger footprint.

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