People are using Node. And they move a lot of the processing to the front end with things like React.
They have trouble grokking that there is a method of dev in which the server is not the language parser, so all other languages feel like a wrong step.
Here on HN someone just asked why anyone would write in anything except JS [1].
Now, Node has it's advantages, and so does PHP. My personal preference is PHP. But in mindset, Node is far ahead of anyhere that Rails or Django ever got in their respective waves.
They have trouble grokking that there is a method of dev in which the server is not the language parser, so all other languages feel like a wrong step.
Here on HN someone just asked why anyone would write in anything except JS [1].
Now, Node has it's advantages, and so does PHP. My personal preference is PHP. But in mindset, Node is far ahead of anyhere that Rails or Django ever got in their respective waves.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29321426