First of all I would like to say that I'm no fan of these 54/whatever hour coding rushes, I think it makes people go too fast with poor planning and NO time for

First of all I would like to say that I'm no fan of these 54/whatever hour coding rushes, I think it makes people go too fast with poor planning and NO time for testing anything, even for developing looks short, I would rather take my time to plan anything before writing a single line of code. About Node I have played with it and it looks nice but at the end of the day I just returned to Java and PHP (can't talk about ruby never tried and not sure when I will), why? First, all the Node talk seems to revolve around the hype it generated recently, why I don't know. The idea of the async is nice but stall it with something that takes long to process (and needs to send a response) and you are screwed just like any other language, but I think node may be worse as far as my understanding goes its a single thread dispatching stuff (am I right? please correct me on this if I'm wrong). Libraries for it, there seem to be too many of the same kind all of them with different ways of working that is not easy, and when I tried it none did what I wanted.