This kind of attitude really bothers me. It's like some kind of macho-programmer attitude, like "people who use scripting languages are weak!". There are legit

This kind of attitude really bothers me. It's like some kind of macho-programmer attitude, like "people who use scripting languages are weak!". There are legitimate complaints about JavaScript and Node, but to dismiss it like this is just silly. It's a genuinely impressive piece of technology, one that support rapid development of prototypes as well as scaling those prototypes to production ready services. It's a technology that's well proven and fairly easy to work with, and unless you're working on massive scales, the performance is just fine. I'm not saying it's necessarily better than the alternatives, but dismissing it out of hand like this bespeaks a close-mindedness that is a bad feature in a productive developer.