> "50/50 chance node will completely collapse within 10 years or so" Wow, way to be real assertive with that statement. Hedging your bets for a prediction that

> "50/50 chance node will completely collapse within 10 years or so" Wow, way to be real assertive with that statement. Hedging your bets for a prediction that won't really matter in 10 years. I am not sure why you think ruby is dead considering the amount of Rails apps and the ecosystem that surrounds it. If you read about their seed round, one reason investors invested is because a lot of other companies rely on npm/node. So their thinking process is that even if npm is not profitable, it at least makes their other investments more robust by making something that other companies rely on much stronger.