Could you name a few static languages that aren’t several orders of magnitude faster than JavaScript?
Basically benchmarks like these:
https://medium.com/deno-the-complete-reference/deno-v-s-go-h...
https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/typescrip...
To note, the first link has a follow-up with Go properly getting faster than deno when fitted with a better http server. Which is kinda my point: the tooling available and level of optimizations can easily have more impact than the language's inherent speed.