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from a long term maintainability perspective, javascript can be notorious. you could always follow a disciplined approach for development to help with maintainability, but that applies to all programming languages. i don't see anything about javascript that makes it more maintainable especially for large projects.

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It's not the language, it's the people, the community.

what's different about node community from ruby community? are you sure that's not confirmation bias?

Well, again, most of the dependencies we used in Ruby did not see any update in the 3 years we've been using them. We also reported several bugs in those libraries/dependencies which were never fixed. This led us overtime to use our own branch of all the significant dependencies we had (including the MySQL gem for EM, the redis gem... and several other key ones).

Most of node modules are still in active development. As I've stated in the blog post, that's a pro and con, but we estimated that the pro was greater than the con :)

What leads you to believe all of these node modules that you now have dependencies on will still be in active development in 3 years?

They might not be, but that doesn't matter as much as being able to report bugs and have them fixed now, while people are still actually developing/fixing things.

TypeScript makes it way more maintainable.

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