I was mostly in the Scala/Java world for a long time and laughed at the JS community’s obsession with reinventing things. Somehow I ended up using Node on every

I was mostly in the Scala/Java world for a long time and laughed at the JS community’s obsession with reinventing things. Somehow I ended up using Node on every side project over the years because it was pretty easy to work with. Fast-forward to now...I’ve decided to build my startup on typescript and node. I find the easy sharing of libraries and types across frontend and backend very liberating. TS/ES6 are mature and run everywhere. Easy for beginners but functional enough for me. It’s taken me a while but I love JavaScript.