For me it's still by far the best runtime to do anything event-alike/http/json/web. It's quick to develop small things and quick to deploy (if you omit the whole transpilation shenanigans which of course help if you have dozens of engineers working together).

Great winning move, where a ton of the hard part of language optimization & growth is other people's problems, & Ryan could focus on making a great developer experience, which he and izs (npm author) did.