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by TurboHaskal 3978 days ago
Oh there are many benefits:

- Need any specific feature? Just give NPM a quick search and you'll find not one, but a dozen half-assed implementations. The wide range of unfinished, poorly tested, not-invented-here packages giving the impression of a pragmatic and vivid community guarantees that the platform won't lose its momentum anytime soon. I mean just look at http://www.modulecounts.com/

- It has a Windows installer so it works on Windows. Guaranteed!

- Significant pool of young, cheap and over-motivated developers that are yet to experience burnout. Not having to deal with employees' family responsibilities or that COBOL dinosaur who just happened to forget his own cubicle number is a big plus.

- Running the same language on the server and the browser means you won't ever have to learn another language. Sans the language that compiles to JavaScript of the month, of course.