Doesn&#x27;t preclude them, but doesn&#x27;t encourage them, which was the philosophy. An officially blessed approach would deprive alternatives of oxygen (though to be fair, it might also enlarge the pie, by attracting extra developers like yourself).<p>The flexible experimental approach inevitably conflicts with the constraint of back-compatibility (e.g. of x86, java).<p>Node seems more like the Drosophilia-like JS frameworks.