A lot of the readability problems with NodeJS the author mentions at the beginning of the article have been solved in numerous ways. Promise based work flows fo

A lot of the readability problems with NodeJS the author mentions at the beginning of the article have been solved in numerous ways. Promise based work flows for instance allow one to define a step by step flow very similar to the counter examples provided. Packages like babel can expose things like yield and async/await which get us even closer. I'm not saying its ideal but it certainly mitigates the worst parts of the 'callback hell' problem pointed out.