I think the main thing missing with Node is best practices. We use jslint with node. And we run tests in parallel, to flush out any dependencies. We had to wrap

I think the main thing missing with Node is best practices. We use jslint with node. And we run tests in parallel, to flush out any dependencies. We had to wrap callbacks in a sequencing library to get good stack traces, though. Node.js also integrates with the Chrome V8 source level debugger, for real debugging! Also, C++ can also take down your site with a single character typo that the compiler may not catch, so even static typing can't save against everything! (I actually like C++, too, so no hate there)