> if I'm server side and using something dynamic, I might as well > use something nicer like ruby or python. You could say the same thing about Javascript

> if I'm server side and using something dynamic, I might as well > use something nicer like ruby or python. You could say the same thing about Javascript. "Might as well use the language I already use on the front-end." The code is pretty much identical between Ruby, Python, and Javascript once you have a yield/await abstraction in the latter.