I used Node (with Typescript) as well for small and simple stuff. Typescript is probably still my favorite language.
Now, I'm using Go for about 2 years and to my shame I haven't really understood Go modules properly. I still need to look up simple stuff in the standard lib regularly. I can relate that Go is quite different than what many from us coming from other languages are used to. To me, Rust syntax felt much simpler to learn.
However, Go is now my standard tool. Rust takes just too much brain power just for memory management. The Go std lib is a huge time and headache saver. Go gets overall so much right that I learned to live with some of it's quirks.
TypeScript is actually pretty amazing, a lot of people strongly dislike it, but I think it gives a reasonable amount of safety for such a dynamic language, I would use it even if only for the autocompletion. It encourages a better (imo) style of programming than traditional JS that did all kinds of dark magic, like modifying the prototype chain.
Sometimes I wonder what a world with strong ESM support, a slim runtime such as just [1], strong typing (like Rescript is trying to do), a unified format/lint toolchain and a solid standard library would like like, look how far Node.js has gotten despite its numerous flaws.
I used Node (with Typescript) as well for small and simple stuff. Typescript is probably still my favorite language.
Now, I'm using Go for about 2 years and to my shame I haven't really understood Go modules properly. I still need to look up simple stuff in the standard lib regularly. I can relate that Go is quite different than what many from us coming from other languages are used to. To me, Rust syntax felt much simpler to learn.
However, Go is now my standard tool. Rust takes just too much brain power just for memory management. The Go std lib is a huge time and headache saver. Go gets overall so much right that I learned to live with some of it's quirks.