Maybe read what I said instead of leaping in to defend against things I didn't say.

For example:

>I'm sure every language has its success story(ies) along with a long list of failures.

is actually in your reply to:

>Some people like pretending that other languages don't have their own warts.

I don't think node is a bad platform. I think the language it's based on is terrible, and nobody who is willfully writing backend code in node has any real justification to complain about someone else's choice to use PHP.

I took your comment to instill a sort of "pecking order" among back-end languages. In this case, it sounded an awful lot like "it goes from _insert language(s) you approve of_ to PHP to JavaScript". Basically that you'd lump PHP and JavaScript into the "terrible" bin. I'm simply pointing out while you may have disdain for those languages (and perhaps even rightfully so) the users are free to love them and still hate other languages.

If I misrepresented your stance, I apologize.

> Shopify and Stripe are successful with Rails!

Shopify and Github are successful with Rails.

Stripe uses Ruby only.