As somebody who uses Node only at the periphery of my role (for things like the Zombie browser, and SASS parsing) the massive instability has put me off from relying on it for anything core.
Documentation is quickly out of date, libraries seem to have incompatibilities which only become obvious when they don't work, there's no 'recommended' approach for even basic tasks.
I won't pretend I'm speaking for everyone, as clearly there are lots of people doing great things with Node. However, it doesn't seem to be a language like Ruby or Python where I would feel comfortable using it for a small but important project.
I'm always grateful to everyone who works on open source projects, but I wouldn't hold Node up as a great example of the open source community.
Documentation is quickly out of date, libraries seem to have incompatibilities which only become obvious when they don't work, there's no 'recommended' approach for even basic tasks.
I won't pretend I'm speaking for everyone, as clearly there are lots of people doing great things with Node. However, it doesn't seem to be a language like Ruby or Python where I would feel comfortable using it for a small but important project.
I'm always grateful to everyone who works on open source projects, but I wouldn't hold Node up as a great example of the open source community.