[notduncansmith]

Author here.

> I believe the author meant between frameworks, patterns and compilation styles. To a lesser extent syntax (that's probably the most visible but least painful).

Spot on.

> To be honest, I'm not sure what that point was about I still feel a context switch going from server side node js in my apis and apps to client side angular / backbone.

That's not a point I was trying to make, perhaps I wasn't clear. The context-switching I was talking about wanting to avoid was Go (or some other language) and Javascript, and the fact that my tooling is JS means I'm gonna be switching all the more often. I don't really have a problem switching between client and server-side JS.

In fact, context-switching isn't that hard for me, but being able to avoid it is a nice bonus that comes with what happens to be my favorite stack.