how many of the Node advocates completely and utterly fail to understand their competition I agree, but as someone who is generally excited about Nodejs, I see

how many of the Node advocates completely and utterly fail to understand their competition I agree, but as someone who is generally excited about Nodejs, I see it as necessary growing pains. These kinds of criticisms and back-and-forth and flamewars, if a language or platform is having them, it doesn't make it fade into obscurity, it forces it to mature, either technically or socially. It also has the benefit of bringing it's most ideological advocates down to earth. I feel as though I watched this whole process with Rails, which went from The Greatest Thing Ever(tm) to simply another framework with some big advantages to go with it's known disadvantages. And now it's happening with Nodejs, and I think that's ultimately a good thing.