I'm excited about this idea because: 1) This approach lets me put together a quick server without a big, complex container to configure (No Apache, Tomcat, Rai

I'm excited about this idea because: 1) This approach lets me put together a quick server without a big, complex container to configure (No Apache, Tomcat, Rails, (Insert Python Framework Here), etc). 2) Javascript really is a nice language to program in. First class functions lead to some neat tricks, and aside from a few minor quirks (scoping issues, overloading the "+" operator) it lacks nasty gotchas like Java and PHP, at least so far. 3) Lots of programmers have JS experience and web experience, so there's a large potential pool of users (Subjectively, this may or may not be a good thing, see PHP. But there's demand) It's probably not the be-all-end-all, but there are some positive reasons to see work in this space. I'm curious to see how the language implementations evolve as people start doing more complex server side things with JS.