The things that made Node.js big are npm, the community, and the fresh new frameworks - a story similar to Ruby on Rails. But I have to fess up that I miss C# a

The things that made Node.js big are npm, the community, and the fresh new frameworks - a story similar to Ruby on Rails. But I have to fess up that I miss C# and Java as their verbosity is actually an investment, not wasted time. I'm really excited about Ceylon although it seems very slow pacing - doesn't even support Java 8 yet. I've recently done some stuff in Groovy (self-contained single-file utilities that download their dependencies from Maven with no build process and dealing with binaries although Capsule seems to be solving this perfectly nowadays). Anyway, one has to consider Dart as well as it can spit out JavaScript for the client and still write everything in one (saner) language. I really don't see myself doing a relatively large project in Node.js.