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Quite early on the eyes, powerful, fast to build and rolk out projects, about. A billion libraries with all the functions you'll ever need. People both about it because it has some language quirks from way back in the beginning, I see it as stability. I don't know how node is now but I remember a few years back where every bug fix came accompanied not only by 10 new bugs but also a bunch of interface changes that immediately broke everything. Every. Single. Damn. Time.
Having said that, it under very active development and has been majorly improved over the years. Dumb design choices are no long available and right now it's quite easy to work securely with it.
Beyond the "but these two functions should have similar naming but they don't!" argument, that with a good editor doesn't matter anyway, there isn't really a good argument out there not to use it.