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The fact that Samsung haven't gotten things quite right with their Smart TVs doesn't mean I'm going to buy an Apple TV or some other box.
Yet somehow we've convinced ourselves that frontend development now requires package managers, compilers, CSS test cases, CSS frameworks, etc.
Sure there are web-based apps with a rich functionality that require some of these things, but the vast majority of pages that I see out there are just as simple as they were five years ago.
for (var i in cars) { console.log(cars[i]) }
Also, if you're using JS on the frontend, forEach isn't supported by all browsers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156696/which-web-browsers...
I don't think anyone really sees a problem with it, although it might be somewhat of a gotcha for people coming from languages where variables are local to the loop.
Yet, Danish companies like Lego, Carlsberg and Maersk (whose subunit Maersk Line in itself is the largest company of its kind in the world) seem to be doing fine.
Your argument that the US is the best place to start a business is not in any way "self-evident", and you have provided no source or proof.
So say some journalists.
Their methodology seems sound.
"We determined the Best Countries for Business by looking at 11 different factors for 134 countries. We considered property rights, innovation, taxes, technology, corruption, freedom (personal, trade and monetary), red tape, investor protection and stock market performance. Forbes leaned on research and published reports from the Central Intelligence Agency, Freedom House, Heritage Foundation, Property Rights Alliance, Transparency International, the World Bank and World Economic Forum to compile the rankings."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2011/10/03/the-b...
America is no. 14 on the list of best countries to start a business in. http://www.forbes.com/best-countries-for-business/list/
If I were the CTO of a Node-based startup with 10 or more developers, there's no way I'd allow the developers to choose whether they wanted to write their code in CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Dart, or clean JavaScript. Within a company there has to be at least some consistency.
Some European countries have higher wages, but that doesn't necessarily mean that employers end up paying more than they would have in Silicon Valley - partly because US employers often pay for health care / dental (not always the case in Europe), and partly because high living costs in Silicon Valley have pushed wages up.
I don't know where OP lives, but several countries have work weeks that are less than 40 hours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time
Yet Linode's non-SSD drives seem to beat Digital Ocean's SSD drives "in just about every area and not by a small margin" (http://irj972.co.uk/articles/VPS-disk-perf-cont)
I don't know anything about OVH's performance - all I'm saying is that having SSD drives doesn't necessarily mean superb performance - there are other factors involved.
Having said that, once your site goes truly high-traffic, you'll obviously need some caching. All I'm saying is that PostgreSQL/MySQL can easily handle moderately high traffic if your website is not a heavy CMS.