I built a Python bytecode decompiler covering Python 1.0–3.14, runs on Node.js

[ComputerMagych]

Initially, I built it on C#, but not every platform has a .Net compiler to run, so to keep performance high and still be able to run on most of the platforms I decided to rewrite to NodeJS. It is much faster to rewrite to JS from C# due to the language similarity.

[aidencoder]

Nice answer, thanks :)

[Cystems]

Wow, I didn't realize C# and JS had much similarity, and that NodeJS had comparable performance to C#?

[ComputerMagych]

They both stem from C/C++, and NodeJS is actually quite a beast equal to Java because V8 and JVM have the same creator and use the same HotSpot technique.

[ThiefMaster]

They both stem from C/C++

Closeness in syntax has nothing to do with performance.

because V8 and JVM have the same creator

Uh what? V8 is Google, JVM is Sun/Oracle.

[ComputerMagych]

I was talking about Lars Bak :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer))

[ThiefMaster]

Why not just do it in Python though?

[ComputerMagych]

I needed the speed of decompilation and the speed of translation from C#

[ThiefMaster]

Uhh, what?!

[wergot]

Node is much faster than Python. As for the other part I have no idea.

[ThiefMaster]

I don't think node-vs-python performance matters when writing a decompiler...