I am working currently as a Senior dev on a team of 8 developers. We use NodeJS6 for the backend and its a great language wot work with. I've never been so prod

I am working currently as a Senior dev on a team of 8 developers. We use NodeJS6 for the backend and its a great language wot work with. I've never been so productive. There are some drawbacks (weird type system, you need disciplined programmers, etc...) but the overall experience is great. We have a microservice architecture, where every service is on average maybe max 700 lines or so and honestly, Node works great there. You don't have to worry about threads etc.. The event system simplifies all this tremendously. You have millions of library for every flavour. So Microservices in Node are a joy. I wouldn't do a monolith in Node though... But actually, I'd never do a monolith again :-) So I definitely don't see it as a joke. Before that I did C#, Clojure, Java, Python, C++ and Ruby jobs and honestly, I think Node is up until now my best experience. In terms of speed, joy and community. The latter is GREAT(!). I love js confs, so much different people, zero hostility, open minded. Great! Also JS allows you to write very nice code. Look at libraries like Ramda, or the fantasy-land movement. You can write wonderful code in it if you know how to do it. ES6 really helps here. I wouldn't like to write code anymore in ES5 or earlier to be honest...