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$ ab -k -c 10 -n 10000 http://127.0.0.1:3000/

Node

Requests per second:    10137.73 [#/sec] (mean)

Go

Requests per second:    94338.73 [#/sec] (mean)

main.go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		w.Header().Add("Content-Type", "text/html")
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "<h1>Hello World</h1>")
	})
	http.ListenAndServe(":3000", nil)
}

main.js

const http = require("http");
const port = 3000;

const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    response.writeHead(200, {
      "Content-Type": "text/html"
    });

    const responseMessage = "<h1>Hello World</h1>";
    response.end(responseMessage);
});

server.listen(port);