We did consider it. At the time it seemed like a large Node codebase would be too hard to maintain. The tooling is getting better over time though. If we revisi

We did consider it. At the time it seemed like a large Node codebase would be too hard to maintain. The tooling is getting better over time though. If we revisited today I think the argument for Node would be more compelling, and if we revisited after ES6 became standard the argument would become more compelling yet.