While I agree that it does come across as very biased, I think it might be a valid and valuable evaluation of some of node's current areas of weakness. Maybe r

While I agree that it does come across as very biased, I think it might be a valid and valuable evaluation of some of node's current areas of weakness. Maybe rather than taking it as flame-bait & starting a holy war over it, we could take a deep breath and pause to remember that not only does e-Mail always come across as more abrasive than it should, SOME programmers have that 'just sorta mildly autistic sometimes(1)' difficulty expressing themselves in ways that take the time to address all those layers of social nicety that people sometimes expect. (more gruff, factual communication, less time for mediating language). It seems to me that this is actually a really great opportunity to put a list of things on the node.js TODO list (some of which, I think is already available through various addins). If Joe Amstrong is one of the creators of Erlang, he's clearly quite brilliant as a programmer and his evaluation of node's should be taken for what it is: a great opportunity to make node better. (1)Not that I'm accusing the OP of that in any way ... it's just that the "tone" isn't really relevant to the rest of the discussion. edit actually, on subsequent readings, it sounds less abraisive as well. Even he says that he doesn't know why node was created, but does know why Erlang was. It kindof reminds me of the quote that was attributed to Einstein: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." — Albert Einstein