That's specifically the purpose of the benchmarking right ? to be misleading and get attention. I guess this benchmark achieved that.
Java subs are celebrating it like they won a war. Java is a great language and will remain one of the top languages in the near future. But these silly benchmarks don't serve any purpose.
I am expecting to see this benchmark thrown around a lot from now on any language discussion. Whoever is doing these benchmarks should be more responsible and sensible.
Small clarification (to my understanding, I'm not a Java Guru) on why Java got on top - those Java implementations use something called Direct Executor. It's super performant when there's no chance of a blocking operation. But if you are to do anything more than echo service, you might be in trouble. Other implementations probably don't suffer from the same constraint