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Node will probably start showing up more, though I'd say its biggest weakness is that there's no full framework (that takes care of everything) that's truly dominant. Working in node, feels like working in Java, especially if you're using Typescript. Unlike Ruby and Python, Javascript / TS suffers from the paradox of choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice



Javascript's ecosystem isn't just fragmented, it is downright capricious. In all my decades in tech, I've never seen an environment where dependencies rot out of maintainability faster.




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