Again, why not just stick to the technical merits here? Why accuse Node critics of trend-chasing? I'm not a trend-chaser. Python has been around since 1991 and

Again, why not just stick to the technical merits here? Why accuse Node critics of trend-chasing? I'm not a trend-chaser. Python has been around since 1991 and is my language of choice for most things. I like Elixir, but I wouldn't even consider using it at work, specifically because it could just be a fad. I'll keep an eye on it and maybe in 5-10 years consider looking for Elixir jobs if it's still growing. There is a ton of technical experience which goes into me saying that Node is a flaming piece of crap. It's not just shipping features faster, it's how stable those features are, how many bugs you get, how secure your system is, how performant/scalable, etc. I have worked with Python and Node for years, every workday. Before that I worked in C#, Java, Ruby, Clojure--and it's exactly the experience of chasing a few trends versus using some old solid languages that makes me want to stick with tried-and-true tools. Your post has a sense of "everything is relative, there's no such thing as one language being better" to it, but I don't think that's true at all. I think we can look at the technical merits of languages, compare those to the problems we have, and see which ones are better. And that's important because when we have the choice, we can choose to use the better tools.