At my last company I created a few tools that became key to my org, which was front end/JS oriented. Being able to write them in JS meant anyone could contribut

At my last company I created a few tools that became key to my org, which was front end/JS oriented. Being able to write them in JS meant anyone could contribute fixes and features trivially, with zero ramp up time. That is a really nice benefit of Node. Imagine if Rails developers couldn't use Ruby for their tooling. Node really filled a nice gap here.