I think that's my biggest problem, my background is heavy on C/C++, and moved onto C#, Ruby, Python and Obj-C later and whilst I think Javascript is fine in ter

I think that's my biggest problem, my background is heavy on C/C++, and moved onto C#, Ruby, Python and Obj-C later and whilst I think Javascript is fine in terms of providing functionality for web pages, the language doesn't lend itself to a large implementation like NodeJS unless you're supremely well versed in it.