> And I want to be able to just express my software using futures without worrying I’m holding them wrong. Well, there you go: you just happen to want to build

> And I want to be able to just express my software using futures without worrying I’m holding them wrong. Well, there you go: you just happen to want to build stuff that javascript is good for. If you wanted to express different software you'd prefer a different language. But not everyone wants to write io-bound web services.