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It probably depends what you are comparing. If you work with plain JS, where there is no compilation at all, you are probably right - it will be slow :-)
But generally, I don't think it's slower than many other compiled languages, and for sure it's faster than some of them (e.g. Scala).
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It probably depends what you are comparing. If you work with plain JS, where there is no compilation at all, you are probably right - it will be slow :-)
But generally, I don't think it's slower than many other compiled languages, and for sure it's faster than some of them (e.g. Scala).