&gt; the massive instability has put me off from relying on it for anything core.<p>Documentation is quickly out of date, libraries seem to have incompatibilities which only become obvious when they don&#x27;t work, there&#x27;s no &#x27;recommended&#x27; approach for even basic tasks.<p>--<p>Do you have examples? My counter to your anecdotal evidence is my own--we&#x27;ve successfully built and managed multiple projects in production, that service millions of customers, which were written in nodejs, and have been doing so since 2013. The issues with Io led to no discernible conflicts to our businesses.