AxonASP Go-Based Engine Outperforms Native Windows VBScript in Benchmarks

Developer Jeffrey Heping benchmarked five runtime environments by porting all 23 Gang of Four design patterns to VBScript and running them on Windows 11. AxonASP, a cross-platform execution engine built in Go, completed tests in 0.092 seconds on average, edging out Microsoft's native cscript.exe at 0.107 seconds. Unlike traditional IIS execution, AxonASP compiles VBScript into cached bytecode, allowing subsequent web requests to skip the parsing phase entirely. The engine also runs on Linux, macOS, and BSD via a CLI binary, effectively turning VBScript into a cross-platform scripting tool without requiring a Windows host. Its modular Go architecture additionally allows direct embedding into third-party Go applications and supports running Microsoft HTA files outside of Windows.