Like JavaScript, one can argue that the only thing wrong with node is the ecosystem/developer community. Things like npm as just not curated enough given the la

Like JavaScript, one can argue that the only thing wrong with node is the ecosystem/developer community. Things like npm as just not curated enough given the large number of JavaScript developers and the attendant variability in quality of output. Node itself is an almost perfect call-back driven even loop for Unix network io, which till go and go routines/channels was the conceptually simplest way to use the CPUs you are paying for, saturate the network, and have subtle threading issues. (Python gevent was also good at that, but had more implicit magic which is bad for reasoning about code). But I am hopeful that when I finish reading the article I will not have to reuse my jquery / d3 based framework for doing quick data viz things (which I only started doing with great reluctance because people don’t go wow over tabular data even if the data is wow-ing. The first request to make it pretty, i switched to mono space fonts. But jquery is showing its age.