[thakoppno]

You have this Nodejs developer’s upvote.

At this point in my career (10 years in the game), let me simply defend node as the tool that got me here. Using it then to bootstrap my career was just as practical as using SMTP as you describe now.

[tylerscott]

I absolutely love your perspective. I feel the same way. s/Ruby+Rails/node for my situation. I believe there needs to be more respect paid to "bad" technologies. The measuring stick should include things outside pure benchmarks. Low barrier to entry technologies provide broad access and real life changes to folks that are able to pick them up and get hacking.