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Re:Node.js v9.2.0 by edf13 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:39AM (#15702604)
Nodejs is incredibly fast to prototype in... Performs well under load and scales well.

The simple fact is you can try new ideas out quickly and very easily in Nodejs and then even take the raw prototype into production with a simple re-factor.

Re:Node.js v9.2.0 by qaq on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:57AM (#15702899)
I highly doubt people programming in other languages make more on avg. than same level eng. in Netflix or Linkedin programming in JS/Node.