The async library is a huge boon, but I'm still finding it hard to avoid deeply indented callbacks in node.js code.
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I made some changes to a node express project that I haven't touched in almost five years. I was pleasantly surprised that I only needed to update one dependency to get it working again!
(It was sqlite3, which is a native dependency using node-gyp.)
Is there any relationship between language adoption and the size of its standard library?
These days it seems completely orthogonal, but early Java adopters spoke highly of the collections library compared with C++.
Maybe it's the widespread availability of package managers?
Over a sufficiently long time horizon, all code you write is legacy code.