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Yes, I talked with a few Python devs and they all envied the package management of Node.js.

Funny thing is, NPM is fun at the start, but in long running projects it's really bad. I mean, it feels like a huge step forward coming from PHP (where I didn't have any package manager back in the days) or Python (where pip seems to be a bit clunky) but it still could be better. Hopefully Yarn changes that.

Having the same language on front and backend is good for my own projects.

But it really is a problem on commercial projects I work on, because the people in charge tend to mix developers. I wouldn't consider myself a back-end developer, but was forced to write multiple APIs, because "it's just JavaScript, right?!"