deno VS FrameworkBenchmarks

When building a JavaScript backend, should you choose Bun, Node.js, or Deno? Let's break it down.

There’s no acknowledgment of Node.js trademark on Deno.com … and the landing page is largely about how much better Deno is over Node.js.

Of all places to put trademark acknowledgement, it’d be there - and it’s missing.

https://deno.com/

Deno is a modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. Since its 1.0 release in 2020, Deno has positioned itself as a secure-by-default runtime that addresses many of Node.js's design challenges. With built-in TypeScript support, a standard library, and no package.json or node_modules, Deno represents a fresh approach to server-side JavaScript development. The project has garnered significant attention with 103,000 GitHub stars and active development from both the core team and community.

Learn more about Deno.

Jsdom should work in deno, can you open a [github issue](https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues) with some details and a reproduction?

All of the simple cases I've tried seem to work fine, e.g:

```typescript

Perfect for Cloud and Infrastructure: Major tools like firecracker (AWS Lambda microVMs), deno, and vector.dev are all written in Rust. It's becoming the de facto language for next-gen DevOps, cloud infra, and edge computing.

I thought - YOLO, lets go deno! 🦖. I loved how it is an all in one tool with fmt, lint, test, and what not. I wanted that. Okay so I decided to use fresh over deno because its native to deno, right?

Lume[1] is also a static site generator for Deno JavaScript Engine [2]. Indeed it is impossible to find a 4-letter name that doesn't clash using the Latin alphabet and that sounds like a name.

[1] https://lume.land/

[2] https://deno.com/

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&tes...

Here is your transaction throughput. But I'm sure AWS's whole platform team, Alibaba, third of Google, etc don't know what they are doing.

Since 2013, TechEmpower has established a backend framework benchmark. They meticulously define benchmark specifications and maintain an open-source approach that encourages contributions from the community. This benchmark has become a respected standard in the tech industry, serving as a reliable yardstick for technology competitors to assess the performance of their solutions (exemple Go Fiber, C# Asp.net, JS Just). So I can trust the Techempower benchmark.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=z...

I thought to include other implementation from Ruby and Elixir. Rails has always been doing much more and on the heavier side of things. There are also many test that simply by switching server to iodine brings the performance to Elixir / Phoenix level.

I tried seeing how it ranks on the 2025 tech empower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...

And up against C#, Go and C++, no Swift library (including vapor) could make the top 70.

Even just compare Swift vs PHP and its a really poor showing for vapor: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...

References & Further Reading: TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Rust typically beats Go web frameworks on tech empower performance benchmarks, if you're curious where languages typically rank up in terms of web framework performance. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23

What does "pure raw metal" performance mean? Go has a garbage collector, which I usually hear causing GC pauses negatively affecting performance compared to C/C++/Rust.

* Ruby and Python are painfully slow, but everyone else sorta sits in a pack together

I will probably be able to find another benchmark that says completely different things.

Benchmarking is hard.

I'm also having trouble finding the article from HN that I was sure I saw about Next.JS's SSR rendering performance being abysmal.

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23

[1] https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result?asc=0&f=...