Tbh, i understand the hatred of node just from an administration perspective. I also avoid tooling just to avoid dealing with it (although, shout out to n rather than nvm).

Not old and not yelling at anything. I don’t have any qualms about installing tools that depend on Node, as I use VSCode and therefore Pyright all the time.

That said, Node is awful as a backend language, and speed has nothing to do with it. I will write Go, Python, Rust, or anything else because of how those languages have been designed. JS doesn’t belong in my backend—YMMV.

I don’t dislike it because it’s not fast enough; I dislike it because I associate with the rise of tech influencers, who are at best charlatans, and who at worst have helped to usher in an Eternal September far worse than Web2.0 could ever have dreamt of doing.