Take a look at this, I am sure it has been posted on HN before: http://beamjs.org/ http://beamjs.org/ This allows you to trade off all the cool speed of V8, bu

Take a look at this, I am sure it has been posted on HN before: http://beamjs.org/ http://beamjs.org/ This allows you to trade off all the cool speed of V8, but running node.js singlethreaded, for running on an alpha port of V8 for the Beam VM. If you want to sidestep the problems with Node.js, but keep the good parts, this might be a way forward. Additionally, JS on the Beam VM can seamlessly interact with any other Erlang code, so you get all kinds of other benefits that are erlangy.