CPAN is much higher quality, though. For every Perl package that works and has unit tests and documentation, there are 10 node packages someone tried for a mont

CPAN is much higher quality, though. For every Perl package that works and has unit tests and documentation, there are 10 node packages someone tried for a month to write, then gave up and left at 0.01 with no docs. Perl isn't sexy, but Perl diehards have written and published modules to do everything you can imagine.