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Probably because most of the backend developers are former frontend developers that are sick of JS.

> most of the backend developers are former frontend developers

Is that true at fb? That's quite interesting if so.

lmao definitely not

It would have said something extraordinary about the kinds of ppl they hired for front end development!

I was not, but I did choose JavaScript cynically with spite.

Spite is a great design decision.

an underappreciated one.

node is generally pretty popular, despite JS's shortcomings (and various drama, eg. require vs import, transpilation nightmare)!