So it can also do tooling like vite but it primarily aims to replace node as a better and faster js runtime since they’re rewritten most js api in zig and c++ from what it shows on their github. I’ll give it a try sometime and see if it’s really all that fast and easy as it claims.

Javascript isn’t my primary language but How is it different/better than vite? I’ve used vite for a few vue projects and it felt really fast.

I’m not sure I’ve seen a backend written in Kotlin despite how prominent it is for app development.

I worked with really Big Bank who have their whole backend written in kotlin. It was such a great thing to witness because usually financial institutions don’t give a fuck about clean code and modern programming languages.