Some people like pretending that other languages don't have their own warts. There are thousands of mature SAAS products that use PHP and don't rely on Wordpress for anything. I don't think that anyone who uses Javascript as part of their backend stack has any room to criticize.
Walmart.com (during Black Friday) would beg to differ. LinkedIn might want a word too. I'm sure every language has its success story(ies) along with a long list of failures. Shopify and Stripe are successful with Rails! JavaScript is no different here.
Maybe read what I said instead of leaping in to defend against things I didn't say.
For example:
>I'm sure every language has its success story(ies) along with a long list of failures.
is actually in your reply to:
>Some people like pretending that other languages don't have their own warts.
I don't think node is a bad platform. I think the language it's based on is terrible, and nobody who is willfully writing backend code in node has any real justification to complain about someone else's choice to use PHP.
I took your comment to instill a sort of "pecking order" among back-end languages. In this case, it sounded an awful lot like "it goes from _insert language(s) you approve of_ to PHP to JavaScript". Basically that you'd lump PHP and JavaScript into the "terrible" bin. I'm simply pointing out while you may have disdain for those languages (and perhaps even rightfully so) the users are free to love them and still hate other languages.
I don't think that anyone who uses Javascript as part of their backend stack has any room to criticize.
Nodejs is a solid server runtime these days, widely test by big companies with big traffic as their frontend servers. And there is a mature option for static typing if you want that.
