'Most stable' in the sense that both NPM and Bower are quite reliable. 'That's likely, though it's honestly got the same things as every other programming ecos

'Most stable' in the sense that both NPM and Bower are quite reliable. 'That's likely, though it's honestly got the same things as every other programming ecosystem' I disagree on this point because dependency systems like Gems (for Ruby) and PIP (for Python) are miles behind NPM and Bower. I'm also not aware of popular task runners on other programming languages in the same way Grunt or Gulp are. Perl isn't a language I know well so I can't argue on that. By 'Most evolved' I didn't mean Node.js but really the NPM / Bower module ecosystem. You rarely if ever have to write something from scratch due tu a lack of plugins. I agree with you thought that thanks to V8, JavaScript has a performance level that is close to compiled, lower level code.