alt Hacker NewsI think that in 2026 Node is a boring technology, but with the fast-moving ecosystem around it if you opt into npm (the registry, not the package manager) it makes it not boring.
The things you layer on top of Node via npm could count as "not-boring" in this instance, especially with the number of supply-chain attacks each month.
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Maxion • today at 6:01 AM
Surprisingly I'd still consider this blog post relatively accurate on what it calls boring vs. non-boring.
Yeah, compared to most other languages there's a lot of moving parts and activity in the space still - npm vs pnpm vs yarn, node vs bun vs deno, eslint / prettier vs biome vs oxlint, and that's before even writing a single line of code.
Boring in comparison would be Go where a lot of things are standardized. You still get some non-boring in choosing what libraries to use (if applicable) but generally it's a very dull language/ecosystem.