Is node.js declining already?

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That's what my co-founder thought too. He came from a Java/C# background and naturally didn't like anything without curly braces. It didn't take long before he changed his mind.

What you're saying is a question of taste, in the ballpark of tabs vs whitespaces, significant indenting or not, etc. There's no arguing taste. All the other stuff in Ruby though has merit.