numbers speak for themselves

Numbers are inflated not by choice but by force. Node is not a choice but a consequence of frontend heavy work. And JavaScript was made good using typescript by the guy who also created C#.

Same goes with Python with its data science and ML/AI background.

And the general malus is Microsoft as a company.

In summary: it is not the tech. It is the landscape.

TS is still much more annoying to use than monotonically typed systems like dotnet, and it's also much less safe.

TS drags JS into the world of modern languages, but it's not good enough IMO.

Would you mind providing yours as well as benchmarks used? All benchmarks I could find point to a different picture than described in parent comment

.NET is far more widely used for desktop and web backends.

Taylor Swift is the most popular artist of all time. Is she also the best and your favorite?

Popularity is important, but it doesn't mean anything by itself.

I know that Rust/Zig was superior to all of these tools and in fact has smaller base

You don't need to sold me, I already use both of them

Hope you can migrate out of these legacy tech stack