> You know, choose boring technology.

Is it a boring technology? I remember trying Node.js when it just came out, and I don't think all that much improved. Whole node.js always felt one step forward, two steps back. A lot of early design decisions still hurt it.

I would call it stagnated before I call it boring.

If you are choosing from "all backend technologies", Node may or may not count as boring. It's certainly not as boring as Java.

If, for whatever reason, you need to run JS outside the browser, then Node seems the most boring of all the possible options. Certainly "rewriting all our JS code in Java" sounds a lot less boring.