Meh. It works. Npm is okay if you exercise quality control over what packages you use and keep dependencies down. The language is decently productive for script

Meh. It works. Npm is okay if you exercise quality control over what packages you use and keep dependencies down. The language is decently productive for scripting and everyone knows it so it's easy to find maintainers. It performs well and can be multithreaded just fine by running many concurrent node workers and using a good database and cache. Go may be better but has a less rich ecosystem of turn key solutions and easy integrations. Java is a decent language but has an outdated ecosystem. .NET going OSS is interesting. Ultimately what you do with languages and tools is more important than which ones you use.