>Is it just that people like using one language?

This may not be the venue for me to surface this, but I've been trying to wrap my head around the MEAN stack for about a month now, and it doesn't really even register to me as the same language. I'm using Angular on the front end and ExpressJS plus Mongoose (MongoDB) on the back end, so yeah, it's all technically Javascript, but the real learning curve was in working out how to get these big frameworks to do what I wanted. I sincerely believe that if I was using an Angular frontend to call a Django REST service, I'd have had the exact same amount of trouble grokking what was going on (async calls being the obvious exception).

Am I thinking about this the wrong way?