I&#x27;m not saying it is... and TBH any system servicing web traffic with JS these days likely has node involved.  I was just saying that it would be elevated to a core component, and might hinder adoption of newer releases, though it could improve it too.<p>I&#x27;m mainly echoing concerns that were in play when Mono had been gaining a little traction, and as an example a few useful utilities were added to Ubuntu&#x27;s release, bringing in a large runtime... in this case it&#x27;s not quite as big, but node_modules can get a little big depending on what you&#x27;re working on (much better with SSD).