Blaming Node is like giving pros to Ruby instead of Rails in this case. You're comparing a framework to a runtime with poorly chosen frameworks. I bet rails is

Blaming Node is like giving pros to Ruby instead of Rails in this case. You're comparing a framework to a runtime with poorly chosen frameworks. I bet rails is very productive. But getting a SSR hello world up with Node should take two minutes. Express, EJS, done. Most of the admin pages on fastcomments are server rendered and we add features pretty quickly (IMO).