> This might go against the grain nowadays, but I'm really productive with JavaScript/TypeScript Big number of people pointing out the quirks about a language

> This might go against the grain nowadays, but I'm really productive with JavaScript/TypeScript Big number of people pointing out the quirks about a language and its ecosystem does not mean that they are not good in terms of productivity, it just means that they are just used a lot. "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" — Bjarne Stroustrup The complaining actually helps, such as the example you can see in the node.js ecosystem, better and better tools are being built every day, and also "better" alternatives like Deno (in quotes because IMHO it still needs to prove itself). When Python also got big because of the ML uprising, there was a time that we saw a post complaining about it every day. Same was true for PHP like 10-15 years ago. So don't feel the need to explain why you chose your stack unless you really want to. Languages don't have feelings, you can leave them and learn a new one if it helps you accomplish things.