This is a couple months late but nails it. NodeJS was the spark to the powderkeg. > During development, one small, yet important, feature that Node lacks is

This is a couple months late but nails it. NodeJS was the spark to the powderkeg. > During development, one small, yet important, feature that Node lacks is the > ability to auto-restart when a change is made to the server’s source code. Hm...sounds like a good application for Node's file-watching capability, so I don't see why this needs to be built-in. Start your app indirectly with a script that monitors the source files.