[djblue]

I think most programming communities experience fragmentation as they grow. I would say the javascript ecosystem has had an order of magnitude more fragmentation at every layer: package management, server, client, module specification. IMO this is the cost of progress.

[adlpz]

True, but the JS community is huge. Sure, not by its own merit, but because of browsers. Still, can afford to be fragmented.

For smaller languages like Clojure the consequences are way worse.