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Where I work, we chose it. Could have carried on using PHP, could have moved to $otherLanguage. We chose NodeJS.

• camus 14y ago
  i'm sure he is talking about browser programming , what you do server side is 100% your business, nobody cares. And PHP is definetly not a good exemple as it is even worse than JS.
• lucian1900 14y ago
  When the alternative is something as stupid as PHP, sure. But there are much better languages out there that would entirely eclipse JavaScript, if it wasn't the only thing that can reasonably be used in browser.
  • chris_wot 14y ago
    And yet, nodejs is a perfectly reasonable choice for web development for many.
    • user24 14y ago
      Exactly. The claim was "We use it because we must, not because we choose to." This is not true because even in environments where we need not, some of us still choose JS.