Now that async functions are available in node, I'd say you can write some very nice async code with minimal efforts. Before that, many people were using genera

Now that async functions are available in node, I'd say you can write some very nice async code with minimal efforts. Before that, many people were using generators to write coroutines (e.g. with the co module), which effectively achieved the same result. Not saying you should change languages though, especially if you're happy with your existing toolset! But if you feel up to it, you might be surprised upon giving it a try. I've written a few one-off scrappers without any complaints. It also works well for simple cross-platform scripts. I don't recall the developer experience when installing python on windows, so maybe it's just as good. With node you only have to download and install the official release, and everything is good to go. Even when some package has native code, it generally "just works".