TJ had already written every module possible in Node so he moved on to rewrite them all again in Go. He'll do the same once he's exhausted all Go modules there

TJ had already written every module possible in Node so he moved on to rewrite them all again in Go. He'll do the same once he's exhausted all Go modules there are to write. Suffice to say his exit hasn't changed anything, his efforts have been taken over by others and NPM is still growing at a fast rate.