[mickgardner]

This is node.js? no. Golang/C/C++ I can handle, but I'm NOT installing node.js just for this.

[martiuk]

I don't know what it is with node.js but people seem to want to reinvent everything with it.

[archimedes_owl]

Hipster hubris? The "cool kids" crowd that jumped from PHP to RoR to node.js.

Please don't follow the hype: many of this tools will be abandoned when a new framework/language comes out and this will leave the Unix userspace more fragmented.

[Already__Taken]

  npm install myproject

On mac, windows and anything nix + arm is a very compelling proposition. I'm not trying to say this is unique to node. It is what it is.

[jeremy_wiebe]

Maybe it's just that that's the tooling/language that the author knows. I've been guilty of writing a tool in the language I'm most familiar with whether the greater community thought it was a good idea or not.

[striking]

It was the same thing with PHP back in the day.

Node is a better language, but not by much. And the fact that it's easy to get started means you'll see a lot of this.

My opinion? Node.js should only be used for streamed or evented data. It's just not built for other uses.

[int_handler]

This xkcd comic seems relevant: https://xkcd.com/1508/

[jessaustin]

It's possible that if this were the case for some other platform, that would be seen as positive.

[easytiger]

CV padding

[enibundo]

Exactly my thought. Apart from the fact that it doesn't add anything to my existent Tool-chain at the moment.