>Except the .NET runtime is about 5-10x faster than those runtimes.

I'm as guilty as anyone for using anecdotal evidence but any reliable numbers that prove this? Stats I recall from years ago showed V8 destroying the .NET CLR.

Specifically, comparing Responses per second between C# and javascript web frameworks:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...

One JS framework smokes, but most of the C# ones are above the JS ones. I don't know what's that "just-js" thing at the top though, I suspect it's not really a framework.

Pedantically, it's a framework but a very targeted one with its own runtime: https://github.com/just-js/just