Node is a failure. It's standard library is written ad hoc. Riddled with catch 22s and monkey patches. The development style is just to bolt on more and more variables and branches, endlessly, without any cohesive style.

Example of the "common caterpillar" genus of node quirks and the awful antagonistic responses by the dev team: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/25857

Just take a look at a random stdlib source file: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/readline.js

``` if (input && input.input) { // An options object was given output = input.output; completer = input.completer; terminal = input.terminal; history = input.history; historySize = input.historySize; signal = input.signal; ```

It's junior-level code writing all over the project. That is a failure in my mind, especially when I know the library backing my project has to import all that junk hidden from view.

See (wontfix) fs.promises.readFile is 40% slower than fs.readFile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26332774

Not to mention the awkward political nature. There is a BLM banner on their front page: https://nodejs.org .The founder of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, just bought 4 mansions, the last for $1.4 Million USD: https://news.yahoo.com/blm-official-calls-investigation-foun...

Node's dev team is not interesting in supporting the community. They are amateurs who are trying to be woke and add "top Node contributor" to their toolbelt of proverbial ego items. Prove me wrong.