While I'm not convinced that Node is great. It is fine. The article is hilarious in comparing it to 3 AOT-compiled lower level languages. I would compare it to

While I'm not convinced that Node is great. It is fine. The article is hilarious in comparing it to 3 AOT-compiled lower level languages. I would compare it to Ruby, Python and PHP. Also, I'm unclear on if the benchmark did any IO-bound work that actually makes async servers make sense. The whole "we can serve other clients while waiting for IO" is the reason it is any good. Not a huge fan of Node. But this post was just a headscratcher.