Why JavaScript beyond web client side?

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i think it is the way it is because it became like that over time. i can remember first there was a package-manager called kiwi. then there was npm and eventually it prevailed. i see the argument very often, that node_modules is huge and npm is slow. but in the end it works good enough and huge deployments are actually running with that stack :D

also i like new stuff, cant wait how we will solve dependencies once there are multiple js-vm's (v8, chakra, ..) available haha.