It probably depends what you are comparing. If you work with plain JS, where there is no compilation at all, you are probably right - it will be slow :-)
But generally, I don't think it's slower than many other compiled languages, and for sure it's faster than some of them (e.g. Scala).
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My experience with Kotlin/JS (for frontend), is compilation time is so slow.
It probably depends what you are comparing. If you work with plain JS, where there is no compilation at all, you are probably right - it will be slow :-)
But generally, I don't think it's slower than many other compiled languages, and for sure it's faster than some of them (e.g. Scala).