For new developers who want to achieve a lot quickly, Meteor is an awesome choice. My experience with Meteor as a framework leads me to believe that it is:

I managed to sell Meteor as a good developer framework when I was interviewing for avolunteer teacher at MEST, a startup school based in Ghana and will be teaching it to complete beginners from January 15th.

This cannot be overstated. Beginner programmers are often afraid of the command line and simply give up when they find that a step doesn’t work. The fact that it’s just a one line means that as many as possible get an instance running.

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Ok, you still need to install Node, but that’s getting increasingly easy as on both Mac andLinux. I haven’t run Meteor on Windows before, but my advice would be don’t use Windows. Seriously.

Linking up the various moving parts is something that also puts off a lot of beginners who haven’t yet settled into a preferred. Meteor sets up your database, templates, stylesheets and logic such that they work flawlessly. It also has great support for coffeescript and less and the like.

meteor add coffeescript

You only need one language

//Client
if Meteor.isClient
  console.log 'What did the client say to the server?'

//Server
if Meteor.isServer
  console.log 'I dunno'

//Both 
console.log 'Maybe you should give him a callbacK?'

That language is Javascript