It's a good one with some history and growing public knowledge now. I'd encourage a deep dive, it goes all the way back to at least CPP and small talk. While I

It's a good one with some history and growing public knowledge now. I'd encourage a deep dive, it goes all the way back to at least CPP and small talk. While I can see some arguments for "we need good tools like Node so that we can more easily write actual applications that solve actual business problems", this seems to me to be the opposite. All I should ever have to do to import a bunch of functions from a file is "import * from './path'" anything more than that is a solution in search of a problem