I'm sure some people may shudder at the comparison, but the first five years of so of NodeJS has mimicked the first five years of Unix in many ways. In particul

I'm sure some people may shudder at the comparison, but the first five years of so of NodeJS has mimicked the first five years of Unix in many ways. In particular the fact that modules are only available in original source form, and the evolution of certain conventions over configuration. Thinking back, the .jar format may have been the worst thing to happen to Java in retrospect, as that artificially limited the evolution of the platform...