That's not very kind. Yes it has its flaws but it's not bad at being a higher abstraction over async-everything, augmented with a huge module repository. Support for isomorphic javascript can come in handy for some applications.

I've never done Scala but my understanding of it is that it could be a good fit for modelling certain types of business logic while being able to take advantage of exiting java libs out there.

> Knowing more than one tool in the toolbox is a key skill, since there is no one-size-fits-all.

Yes, we agree here. That was the point I was making.

Go is, in many respects, a great replacement for Python and Node in that it's simple and handles concurrency well. Scala and other JVM languages fall here too, but come with their assoc complexity.

Python, Node, and Ruby have tons of battle-tested code which often makes the language the "strongest" if for nothing else than there is code that works and it's not critical enough we rewrite it ourselves.

There are definitely sweet spots for each of these languages.

This new helper was responsible for transforming, combining, and synthesizing large API responses with somewhat variable and highly nested data structures into other large API responses with somewhat variable and highly nested data structures. It certainly was not Java I was proud of, but it would have been trivial (and FAR more readable) in Python. Ugh.