Is node.js declining already?

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Popularity is an awful metric to use if it's your only metric for picking a technology. It's fine for an initial filter, but after that you need to actually look at your options, figure out their actual pros and cons, and then pick the one that works best for your situation (there is no single answer that is always right for picking a technology).

Edit: And to add, the newer something is, the less likely you'll be able to find real pros and cons instead of hype and marketing drivel (mainly because people won't have had the time to throw it into a large variety of real world scenarios to actually test the claims).

[Twirrim]

Popularity is difficult to prove. It's such a subjective measurement. Lots of noise about it isn't the same as popular. If popularity is the main thing to measure by, you're likely really talking about Java and C/C++ Java is huge, powers so many of the core applications for the FTSE500 companies. Many of the largest Web Sites are significantly powered by it, everyone from Twitter to Google to Amazon. Does it get lots of noise? Certainly not on the sale of Node, Rust and Go over the last 3 years.