This announcement fits along with Node.js 4.0&#x27;s release containing a commitment to an 18-month roadmap in giving Node.js a greater maturity.<p>As much as I like to think I have chosen Node.js purely for its merits, having a wide community who adopts a platform brings a few perks:<p>- Hiring developers requires less of a gamble on their part. Elixir looks very promising and probably has a lot of advantages over Node.js thanks to it&#x27;s Erlang foundation but it makes it harder to assemble a team—I hope this changes as I wish the Erlang&#x2F;Elixir folks all the best.<p>- There is a great amount of wealth contained in the package repository NPM. Before Node.js, this was a great strength of Perl&#x27;s CPAN (and TeX&#x27; CTAN before that).<p>- Having large organizations adopt a platform will eventually increase OSS contributions.<p>I could be mistaken but I don&#x27;t see Node.js following the bureaucratic of Java&#x27;s JSR if it continues to adopt a lean and mean approach akin to UNIX tools (do 1 thing well).