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Presumably because it minimizes developer time in writing code and is easy to use and it come with great libraries. That is why I have been using it since 1998.
Edit: People use to think I was crazy using Python. It was interesting seeing people slowly get a clue over the years.
It minimizes greenfield development time and increases it later for anything at scale. It's the mongodb of programming languages.
That doesn't sound like much of a "gotcha". The requirements for small stuff and big stuff are drastically different.
But isn't mongo webscale?? °O°