[mantrax5]

The real reason is quite simple. And I'm not trying to be bitter or anything, rather think like a businessman.

The reason is... it's full of JavaScript kids out there, and because they're so many, they're all replaceable, and cheap. Like the commodity hardware servers they're programming.

It's neat to cast this as "easy to attract and retain talent", but "rapid innovation" and "developer happiness" (especially considering the lack of strict typing, lack of basic primitives, single threaded-ness and callback hell of Node.JS) are just B.S. reasons of the kind a Node.JS consulting company would add so it doesn't all look so cynical.

[politician]

The ethnicity of the workers who pick the fruit is of lesser concern than the wages they agree to work for.

[colechristensen]

JavaScript is the new Java... sigh.