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At the risk of sounding completely stupid, why would I want to learn things like Rails, MVC5, Django over something in Javascript/Node?
It seems there are significant advancements being made in the JS world compared to others.
I am a die hard Python lover, but I do not know what do to at this situation.
2) The web is just one of several mediums for delivering content these days.
3) Node.js has a highly suspect concurrency model that might not be suitable for all the various types of programs you could be building.
You should have a look to rails, it's still the state of the art in term of framework design. The java/scala Play framework is also worth trying.
1) Learning different programming languages is one really good way to grow as a programmer. 2) The web is just one of several mediums for delivering content these days. 3) Node.js has a highly suspect concurrency model that might not be suitable for all the various types of programs you could be building.
Agreed on the "not suitable for all" but no one said that.
It's worth exploring a few other languages to just get a greater feel of the future, and to also protect against the chance that JavaScript loses its ground.