With that attitude we should have stopped at FORTRAN. What next, drive a Model T instead of a Civic? Nobody knowledgeable has said that async coding is novel.

With that attitude we should have stopped at FORTRAN. What next, drive a Model T instead of a Civic? Nobody knowledgeable has said that async coding is novel. What matters is that node.js is a simple(r) and effective means of writing asynchronous applications.