@Carnage said in I knew Python was slow, but not THIS slow. And I knew JS was bad, but not THIS bad:
Weyland and systemd makes me think that there must be node somewhere in Ubuntu.
Those two components are not the ones that should make you think that. Not the least because they are the two components that were created pretty much in spite of Ubuntu, which had its own versions, mir and upstart respectively.
I think there isn't actually node. There is javascript in the Ubuntu Desktop, the gnome shell is in large part written in it, but it is a web view using webkit libraries.