> The crappiest part in my opinion is doing `if (er) return cb(er)` all the damn time. That is heart of my complaint. And it's why I made an analogy to system

> The crappiest part in my opinion is doing `if (er) return cb(er)` all the damn time. That is heart of my complaint. And it's why I made an analogy to system calls, because there you end up doing the same thing -- manually propagating error codes. > It is more like C than it is like Python, and that is by design. I agree, which is why the original article simply makes no sense when it presents Node as a competitor to Ruby. They aren't really comparable.