I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript for anything serious or Node itself but I found this article really informational.
"The “Batteries included” philosophy of Python was definitely the right approach during the mid 90’s and one of the reasons that I loved Python so much; this was a time before modern package management, and before it was easy to find and install community-created libraries. Nowadays though I think it’s counter-productive. Developers in the community rarely want to bother trying to compete with the standard library, so people are less likely to try to write libraries that improve upon it." http://caines.ca/blog/programming/the-node-js-community-is-quietly-changing-the-face-of-open-source/
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