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by 999900000999 905 days ago
NodeJS is probably my strongest language. But it's horribly unstable, the sheer amount of legacy code is overwhelming.

Python feels alot cleaner, but I wouldn't pick it over Node for web UI automation or Rest API testing.

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The biggest problem with NodeJS ecosystem is the type of crowd that gets excited over NodeJS: JS developers, some web folks.

NodeJS does not attract the kind of people who build ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hadoop, Spring Framework, etc so the quality of the libraries reflected of that the Web Developers crowd: the short-term Do-ers (need it today, let's build it, and let's move on to the next interesting stuff).