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Also the most widely used language 6 years in a row: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#most-popular...

That by itself doesn't count for much in this context. Web based technologies tend to move quickly while scientists are almost all using math libraries that were written in the 60/ 70's. To scientists these things are just tools and they prefer stability, reproducibility and minimal dependencies over using what's popular.

I doubt there’s much that can be said her to sway anyone’s mind.

Either way, wish the project luck! Reproducible scientific studies is paramount.

Not really. Reproducible research depends on reproducible execution, which depends on a reproducible environment, which depends on a reproducible set of libraries and frameworks. I don't think Node is apt for that. The community values new over stable, and cool over technically superior. That might have its value, but I do not believe those are valuable traits for a project of this sorts.

That it's popular means nothing. Windows is the most popular operating system, pop is the most popular genre of music, oil is the most popular fuel, since decades. This doesn't invalidate their utility or our appreciation of them, but it does not mean they're good for everything.

Uh, sure (eyeroll)

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