> There is an easy sense of superiority that comes with derision of "X" There's also an easy sense of superiority which comes from being actually superior. >

> There is an easy sense of superiority that comes with derision of "X" There's also an easy sense of superiority which comes from being actually superior. > There is no more "problem" with Node.js than there is a "problem" with any other platform. Well, yes, there are problems with Node.js, to include the concurrency model and the language — as indicated in the article. > Different languages are different. Different platforms are different. Of course every system has its own problems. Yes, every system has its own problems, but some systems have fewer or better problems than others, while others have more or worse. There are continua of languages, platforms & OSes. JavaScript-the-language is a bad language. It's not as bad as INTERCAL, but it's worse than C or Lisp. Node.js-the-platform is a bad platform. It's probably not as bad as the Java platform, but it's worse than Go. POSIX is a bad OS. Not nearly as bad as Windows or Mac OS Classic, but worse than Plan 9. One has a very limited number of hours in one's life. Why waste those hours in pursuit of anything other than excellence? Node.js isn't excellent; why spend any time on it?