The problem is that our industry democratized to the point that people want to hire the cheapest resources who can ship something. A mediocre node or ruby devel

The problem is that our industry democratized to the point that people want to hire the cheapest resources who can ship something. A mediocre node or ruby developer costs peanuts to hire compared to one who is mediocre at Go or Erlang. Btw.. If you hire a mediocre go or Erlang developer you’re fucked. For IO bound work there’s not much difference between a service built with Go or Node. It’s really when you need services that have soft/hard real-time requirements or continuous processing requirements that imo it’s necessary to hire the right people for the right stuff. For anyone else who is making a web platform that doesn’t have much complex backend processing, they can just use ruby or node. Personally I use Go for all backend tasks and node for any one off scripting work. Go spits out a binary I can run on any Linux based system. Node scripts are easy to write and I use them for fixing issues or for simple single responsibility tasks.