It's a good point, but any usable language can work out okay as long as the people coding it know what they're doing and how to write code that other people can

It's a good point, but any usable language can work out okay as long as the people coding it know what they're doing and how to write code that other people can work with. The thing that irritates me about the node.js trend is that the people who are using it don't always understand the environment they are in because they never write for the server side. It's a case of an entire community needing to RTFM. OTOH, it's not like anyone outside the community is forced to use their code. And some of them at least know what they are doing.