> JavaScript today has stellar tooling in comparison, and arguably less warts in its standard library than PHP still has today. There are a lot of reasons to l

> JavaScript today has stellar tooling in comparison, and arguably less warts in its standard library than PHP still has today. There are a lot of reasons to like JavaScript as a language and NodeJS as a particular implementation. The standard library (or lack thereof) is absolutely not one of them as things stand today. I'm not even sure what you'd compare between them. If you meant to say "package available at the other end of npm install" instead of "standard library" I could see that being a different story.