I think that this is pretty cool, and nice to see things have progressed as much as it has.
For the most part, I don't use a browser for most of my JS development (I'm all JS, though transpile ES6->ES5). Node has brought in some great things purely as tooling for JS projects, let alone running servers, and processing scripts.
I'm a big fan of node.js and have been for about five years now. It was really the first great general purpose server-side JS implementation. I've used several others (Synchronet, Aptana/Jaxer, GLUEscript, etc) and node continues to be my favorite.
I really like where ES6/7 are going, as soon as async/await are in the runtime it will definitely kickass.
For the most part, I don't use a browser for most of my JS development (I'm all JS, though transpile ES6->ES5). Node has brought in some great things purely as tooling for JS projects, let alone running servers, and processing scripts.
I'm a big fan of node.js and have been for about five years now. It was really the first great general purpose server-side JS implementation. I've used several others (Synchronet, Aptana/Jaxer, GLUEscript, etc) and node continues to be my favorite.
I really like where ES6/7 are going, as soon as async/await are in the runtime it will definitely kickass.