The Importance of JavaScript on the Back End

This is the first I've ever heard of a finally block to be honest. Unless again you're dealing with resources like database handles from within your JavaScript code, then you probably don't need to. On the client side, lifetime usually is not a problem in any event so much because everything gets released or closed anyway when you close the tab or navigate away and whatever. But yeah, it has to do with the fact that the JavaScript is much more used on the server side these days. So really the main issues with the long lived objects and long lived sessions and scarcity of resources usually has to doWhen you're running JavaScript on the back end which is much more likely than it ever has been