So like my comment said I'm not that concerned about it today but if they are going to make breaking changes every 6 months then I'm worried and for two reasons

So like my comment said I'm not that concerned about it today but if they are going to make breaking changes every 6 months then I'm worried and for two reasons that kinda separate node / npm apart from other packaging systems. First, JavaScript lacks a standard library that can interact with a system so node.js is essentially the defacto extension of the JavaScript language to work with a system. If you had a change where its standard libraries change every 6 months (plus or minus a few) it wouldn't be fun. Second, npm supports specifying the engine but you need to be able to update all versions due to security concerns, etc. If it's iterating too quickly with breaking changes then people are going to have to keep a branch for every version and update each one when a security fix is required. That's not sustainable. Most people keep a LTS version and a bleeding edge version. Python and other languages iterate but breaking changes in core APIs? Not very frequently.