[sotojuan]

I'm in a weird position where I like JavaScript and Node but dislike frontend (or at least I am disliking it more and more).

With Node, I can get quite far with just a couple of dependencies that install quickly. I don't need transpilation unless I want to use TypeScript or PureScript and I can target any version I want. I find it very fun to mess around with Node and a bunch of little modules.

I am slowly "transferring" back to server-rended pages using Node or Elixir. Probably not good for my employment (even in NYC most JS jobs are frontend), but whatever.

If I was learning JS right now and didn't care about employment I'd just learn Node (which just means learning JS really) and experiment with stuff.

[cycomachead]

JavaScript, admittedly, has a few more quicks than the average language but I quite like it. I know a lot of people who also feel the same way. (And as many how, of course, hate JS.)

It still feels to me like we're in the early days of node and the dev infrastructure for "modern" sites. Hopefully, things stabilize soon(ish).