You're right, there are certainly cultural barriers to overcome as well, although I just focused on tooling problems in this article. I agree with your stateme

You're right, there are certainly cultural barriers to overcome as well, although I just focused on tooling problems in this article. I agree with your statement about JavaScript. Microsoft was wise to commit resources to making Windows a first-class development environment for Node. There are many compelling reasons for .NET developers to move to that platform.