I also find it funny that people who hate on PHP used to hate on JavaScript for many of the same reasons and they now have an unhealthy, public love affair with it.
I think JQuery and Coffeescript, have gone a long way to mollify people's opinions about javascript in a similar way to frameworks in PHP. And compared to PHP, some of javascript's syntax (particularly arrays, objects and anonymous functions) are a lot easier to deal with than in PHP, so there's some appreciation of that in the Node community, no doubt. But yeah, it does seem as if PHP and javascript are sort of the black sheep of the web app world.
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I think JQuery and Coffeescript, have gone a long way to mollify people's opinions about javascript in a similar way to frameworks in PHP. And compared to PHP, some of javascript's syntax (particularly arrays, objects and anonymous functions) are a lot easier to deal with than in PHP, so there's some appreciation of that in the Node community, no doubt. But yeah, it does seem as if PHP and javascript are sort of the black sheep of the web app world.