What language&#x2F;eco-system <i>isn&#x27;t</i> horrible, honestly? In some way? What&#x27;s your &quot;ideal&quot; stack?<p>Professional, I have used or am using C&#x2F;C++, Python, Ruby, Javascript, some Java, some C#, Golang.<p>Our of all of those the only one I don&#x27;t really hate is Golang. In every other language&#x2F;eco-system I can point to at least a dozen things that are awful. In Golang - maybe only 9.<p>Node has NPM with a huge eco-system. It&#x27;s fast. Javascript, <i>if written correctly</i>, can be a pleasure to use, IMO. And even if you can&#x27;t use it idiomatically for some reason, you can use Cofeescript&#x2F;Typescript or whatever that forces some sort of code structure&#x2F;discipline.<p>Node itself is decent if you understand how to ignore callback-pyramid-of-death with Promises and reactive-type programming.