ecstatic's Past, Present and Future
TL;DR - [The most valuable thing ecstatic can do for the JavaScript ecosystem](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142) is to self-destruct, never to cut a new release again. # 2009 I once had a friend tell me that for many people, the second or maybe first thing that someone gets really into, usually in their early 20s, becomes a memory like what people have about punk rock in New York in the '80s. "We were There and we were Doing It," these people would say. We were of course talking about Node.js. In the neighborhood of 2009 I was in my early 20s, and in fact Node.js was about the second thing I really got into (after webcomics in the mid-aughts as a teen). We were certainly There - with perhaps 40 people in the #node.js irc room around then - and we were definitely Doing It - nobody had written any of the node libraries yet and the possibilities seemed infinite. [Someone ported Sinatra to Node.js](https://expressjs.com/), someone [hacked up a baby package manager on top of CouchDB](https://www.npmjs.com/), [a friend of mine](https://twitter.com/substack) wrote a huge mess of utility modules and me? I learned Node.js as a hobby while working on my engineering degree. It was just a few years later that I got my first job out of college with Nodejitsu. Nodejitsu is probably most famous for being an enterprise npm host before [npm Inc](https://npmjs.com/) was founded in 2014, having incredible journeyed shortly after, but when I worked for them in 2011/2012 they we
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ecstatic's Past, Present and Future
TL;DR - [The most valuable thing ecstatic can do for the JavaScript ecosystem](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142) is to self-destruct, never to cut a new release again. # 2009 I once had a friend tell me that for many people, the second or maybe first thing that someone gets really into, usually in their early 20s, becomes a memory like what people have about punk rock in New York in the '80s. "We were There and we were Doing It," these people would say. We were of course talking about Node.js. In the neighborhood of 2009 I was in my early 20s, and in fact Node.js was about the second thing I really got into (after webcomics in the mid-aughts as a teen). We were certainly There - with perhaps 40 people in the #node.js irc room around then - and we were definitely Doing It - nobody had written any of the node libraries yet and the possibilities seemed infinite. [Someone ported Sinatra to Node.js](https://expressjs.com/), someone [hacked up a baby package manager on top of CouchDB](https://www.npmjs.com/), [a friend of mine](https://twitter.com/substack) wrote a huge mess of utility modules and me? I learned Node.js as a hobby while working on my engineering degree. It was just a few years later that I got my first job out of college with Nodejitsu. Nodejitsu is probably most famous for being an enterprise npm host before [npm Inc](https://npmjs.com/) was founded in 2014, having incredible journeyed shortly after, but when I worked for them in 2011/2012 they we
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