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Curious that front-end engineers feel better about node.js than full-stack or back-end engineers (it doesn't even appear for the latter?!).

First guess: people only think Node.js is a good idea until they try it outside of quick samples.

Second guess: JS is the only ecosystem front-end devs generally know.

Third guess: back-end engineers avoid JS like plague - hence the separation into front- and back-end devs.