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Because it's positioning itself as a faster, leaner, modern drop-in replacement for Node.

Because its for running server side javascript, just like node/deno. It would make sense to compare itself to its competition.

what else would you see it compared to?

versus other than JavaScript stuff: Java, C++, OCaml or Go

But why? It's a JS runtime. Obviously you'll compare yourself to the other competing JS runtimes.

easy targets I would guess