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In my experience, most people are turned off by using Javascript on the backend of web-development. Your experience may be different, but I just don't think the analogy made in the original article is a very good one.

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They may be turned off, but in my experience setting up a Nodejs backed site is incredibly easy with the way the frameworks, libraries, and everything are written. That alone will appeal to a lot of people. Front-end only people could easily put together a Nodejs backed up in no time at all.

Or you could use something like Coffee-script from front-to back. It's a very easy eco-system to get into.

I was about to say, they ought to be turned off by JavaScript on the back end when there are so many other options. Then I remebered that people use PHP more often than not for back end work.

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