Anecdotally, I've met a ton of people who balk at Node for backend stuff. I've been at two companies where it was actually prohibited.
> At the end of the day, all these languages can interoperate with all the others in a bunch of different ways, and an organization’s ability to engineer and maintain systems is mostly orthogonal to its choices of “driver” technologies.
I think people say that in an interest to keep the peace, but the assertion doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. Poor technological choices kill companies, or at the very least, make them perform more poorly. Choosing the right technology is a core skill for technology companies.
The problem is that each company is a goddamn unique snowflake. Company X has a bunch of front-end developers and spends most of their money on headcount. Company Y has a bunch of back-end developers and spends most of their money on infrastructure. The "best language for a project could be R, Python, Go, Rust, C++, TypeScript, C#, Java, or something else. Picking the wrong language can sometimes be outright disastrous compared to picking a good language. But most of the time, there's no clear "best" language.
Even though there's no clear "best" language, these people balking at Node may have a point.
> At the end of the day, all these languages can interoperate with all the others in a bunch of different ways, and an organization’s ability to engineer and maintain systems is mostly orthogonal to its choices of “driver” technologies.
I think people say that in an interest to keep the peace, but the assertion doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. Poor technological choices kill companies, or at the very least, make them perform more poorly. Choosing the right technology is a core skill for technology companies.
The problem is that each company is a goddamn unique snowflake. Company X has a bunch of front-end developers and spends most of their money on headcount. Company Y has a bunch of back-end developers and spends most of their money on infrastructure. The "best language for a project could be R, Python, Go, Rust, C++, TypeScript, C#, Java, or something else. Picking the wrong language can sometimes be outright disastrous compared to picking a good language. But most of the time, there's no clear "best" language.
Even though there's no clear "best" language, these people balking at Node may have a point.