There was a pretty big BASIC cargo cult back in the day.
I didn't even really know what C/C++ were for a fair few years of programming apart from some vague notion that they were used for games because they were faster.
In fact back then you had to pay for C compilers usually, whereas BASIC interpreters were often free with the platform so it was fairly common to have never used anything else.
That became further cemented with Visual Basic it's legions of copy/paste & visual designer oriented developers.
Javascript has a large following not because it's a particularly great language but because it is so ubiquitous. The draw of stuff like node seems to be more to do with code-reuse and having a language that is async-by-default rather than necessarily not knowing anything else.
In fact back then you had to pay for C compilers usually, whereas BASIC interpreters were often free with the platform so it was fairly common to have never used anything else.
That became further cemented with Visual Basic it's legions of copy/paste & visual designer oriented developers.
Javascript has a large following not because it's a particularly great language but because it is so ubiquitous. The draw of stuff like node seems to be more to do with code-reuse and having a language that is async-by-default rather than necessarily not knowing anything else.