Node.js has taken over as the preferred platform for many startups, and in this article, the author explores the reasons behind this trend. The article covers eight reasons why startups choose Node.js over .NET, including the ease of getting started, faster development feedback loop, scalability, open-source community, performance, developer tools, handling of I/O bound tasks, and microservices. The author also provides a disclaimer that all opinions expressed in the blog are his own and that he is a Microsoft employee with no relation to the .NET development team within Microsoft. While some of the reasons may have been true in the past, the article points out that .NET has made strides in recent years, with the introduction of Minimal APIs in .NET 6 making new projects much simpler and reducing the number of boilerplate code required.
