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people like to shit on the js ecosystem. but the expressjs folks have done great work. the API has been stable for a long time. if you learned express.js in 2013 - your knowledge is still relevant. how many frameworks can say that.

now there's faster frameworks etc -- but many things built on expressjs keep chugging along.

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And now that we finally resurrected the project we can land the perf improvements which were unable to land with one maintainer and still supporting 10y old node versions. We likley will not get it to match fastify, but our goal is likely to make more balanced trade offs. I am excited to see what we can do not that we have broken through the dam which was holding us back.

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