>To me, the fact that Node has to add a library with custom semantics just to allow a basic 'open' on a file handle is a huge warning flag to me What do you me

>To me, the fact that Node has to add a library with custom semantics just to allow a basic 'open' on a file handle is a huge warning flag to me What do you mean? The fs module shipped with node is pretty much just a wrapper for libc. Hell, it even links to the open(2) manpage in the docs for usage information.