Your latter paragraph seems a bit fuddy as people &#x27;just dipping in and out&#x27; would never have to have contended with the iojs &#x27;name&#x27; any more than Python&#x2F;Ruby&#x2F;PHP people have to switch to a different VM every time one is announced (e.g. PyPy&#x2F;Rubinius&#x2F;Hack).<p>I&#x27;d agree with your first paragraph in that Node is a bit lower-level out of the box and probably takes more effort to get started building a web-app, but I think the time invested jumping in at that low-level is actually useful vs diving in at a higher &#x27;framework level&#x27; with some of the other popular web languages.<p>Also it does have superior installer&#x2F;package-manager&#x2F;deployment stories compared to say ... Python &amp; Django, which does have an impact on ROI.