Node.js was sth. I jumped on early. As soon as I saw the video of Ryan's talk, I tried it. I guess the first version I tried was <= v0.5. Then the community w

Node.js was sth. I jumped on early. As soon as I saw the video of Ryan's talk, I tried it. I guess the first version I tried was <= v0.5. Then the community went... nuts. But it's quite different than what I view Rails to be. Rails is like a culture. There are a lot of pre-baked things when you run "rails new blurb", but most of it is useful, and you'd create them anyways. But to a newcomer like me, that's a bit overwhelming. That's my lament about it. Wrt Node.js, that's just a product of lots of ignorance. All you actually need is a JS file, or a makefile with ".js.ps:\n\tpuppyscript -c $< > $@". But the wheel is reinvented with such pace and redundancy that it's a hell of a platform nowadays. Even its creator, which is a very smart guy, has said farewell.