To a degree perhaps. However, Node.js has a programming style that's highly reminiscent of code you would see in a browser. For instance, responding to a cone

To a degree perhaps. However, Node.js has a programming style that's highly reminiscent of code you would see in a browser. For instance, responding to a conenct event on a socket socket.addListener("connect", function () { socket.write("hello\r\n"); }); is really not that different from responding to a click event on an element in jQuery. $("#my-element").click(function() { alert('Element Clicked!'); }); I'm not saying that it will instantly make everyone a server side programmer, but it definitely makes the barrier to entry quite a bit lower.