Let it suffice to say that Linux distributions (and some closed OSes) try very hard to prevent package fragmentation. Experience has shown many times that excessive fragmentation leads to proliferation of unmaintained libraries.

> Not sure why you got downvoted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion

Not sure it counts as an appeal to emotion, he pretty accurately stated the facts from the article posted down thread, if reading it makes you emotional that's on the reader.

Node is quite bad - it encourages a proliferation of small libraries and remove the needs to move the versions forward. This, in turn, leads to a wasteland of old, unsecure, dependencies in the long them.

This might be very true for startups, unfortunately, but it's not true for Amazon/Google/Facebook and so on

Ex Amazon here. I've done a lot of interviews and I've never seen candidates being refused an on-site interview for having extensive Windows experience. Still, the hire rate would be really low. Most would have little knowledge of what exists outside of an IDE: OS internals, system design, networking.

> We are richer

Averages are very misleading.

WE are richer, you are not.