You are making a connection between the advent of NodeJS and the Javascript language. The correct version the way I see it is that the popularity of V8 and NodeJS makes Javascript more than a in-browser scripting language; now people can write both client and server side applications in JS. The latter doesn't require the language to change; the language implementation has been around for years and now people started to do things outside the original norm.
> The latter doesn't require the language to change; the language implementation has been around for years and now people started to do things outside the original norm.
No, but it certainly has pushed for decent dependency management systems, and has led to more complex libraries.
