The community is one of the best development communities out there. Node + NPM have created an ecosystem with lots of contemporary tools that fall in line very

The community is one of the best development communities out there. Node + NPM have created an ecosystem with lots of contemporary tools that fall in line very well with the UNIX Philosophy. The few people that I've shown Node to have been surprised about how easy it is to use NPM and tackle dependency management. > If you're not competent enough to learn another language then are you competent to write good enough JS? I used to say that about Java Developers that didn't know C/C++. As I've grown, the thing I've realized is that the end user/customer/client doesn't care what you write your application in (Unless you're on a Government contract). They care if it works.