What do you need quick? I have a Minecraft server, a wiki for random stuff, a shopping list, a calendar sync, photo hosting, a media server and probably some other shit on there.

I can think of many situations where I’d want those quickly, but need I don’t anything.

Of course the mental health team is bleeding talent, it’s probably (initially) consisted of people that actually care about mental health, and they gradually figured out that no matter what they do or try, the technology they work for can only ever be a net negative on mental health. I would also wash my hands off it as fast as possible and go back to actually contributing to positive mental health.

Assuming the uptime of your services are in any way important.

I’m not running a business here, I’ve got no big stakeholders. If something doesn’t work, at most me or someone close to me is affected. No one really cares if something is not available for a day.

I spent 0 minutes on monitoring and don’t intend to start now :D

Maybe you should. Android for example does not use glibc and instead uses “Bionic” by default, which only implements a subset of libc.

It is possible to write a C program that runs on one system but not on another. You can’t do that with node, if it runs on the VM and the VM runs in another place, your program will also run there.

What if the system does not have libc? What if your program needs obscure library X?

Why do you think anyone even came up with the idea of virtual machines? Don’t you think they had a problem they wanted to solve, that was not solved adequately before?

Because you have to figure out how to build them. And with that I mean, how do you make sure that whatever you’re doing will work and work the same way not only on your “embebbed ARM v7” architecture and all the other CPU architectures, but also the operating system libraries included? How do you make it work the same way on Mac, Windows 7, Windows 11, Ubuntu, custom Arch installations, FreeBSD, etc etc?

If you build native binaries, you personally are the one who has to make sure it runs. This means (depending on how much you want to support) a lot of development or support time. (Or you make your users build it themselves and fix errors, which means a massively reduced userbase, good luck with adoption…)

If you use Node, (or other virtual machines) you literally don’t have to do anything, because it just works.

You really don’t see the value in that?

Node does not require an excessive amount of resources.

Perfect explanation. This kind of thing shows why tech giants are giants and why selfhosted is a niche. People like paying for convenience.