[faceyspacey]

My assumption is that Meteor is moving towards becoming like any other app you can build on NPM. That means Meteor will be the wrong tool anywhere NPM/node/javascript is the wrong tool. That's a fine agreed upon limitation.

Currently Meteor is a layer above NPM, which is why I'm referring to NPM as "bare metal" NPM--you clearly knew exactly what I meant. Meteor needs to become an adjacent resource to thrive.

So my prediction is if Meteor does this correctly they will no longer scare away expert developers and grow more than they ever have.

[qaq]

NPM is a package manager. Expert developers are not scared it's just Meteor is horrible solution to majority of use cases that they need to address. You need to read up on what Meteor actually is and what it's limitations are. Major ones have being outlined above: 1) No usable uinversial/isomorphic option so SEO is gone. 2) you can't expose API for external consumption 3) you are tied to only supported storage backends 4) if you are not talking directly to storage layer it's only cool feature is useless

None of the above is limitation of node (or has anything to do with npm package manager).