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Server-side JavaScript is often billed as a way to save time or money by not needing to learn more than one language. This leads to madness.

Reason #1 - learning a language is significantly less expensive than it ever used to be, and definitely less than businesspeople think.

Reason #2 - language boundaries make context-switching frontend & backend easier. Easy to lose time mixing up which JS runtime code runs in,

(My tweetstorm has actually concluded, I just ended it on a comma to throw you off your game.)

(Psych! Tweetstorm still ongoing:) Reason #3 - adopting any technology in order to avoid the cost of learning things always leads to ruin.