I don't know if Node will win for THE non-blocking platform award, but it's coming close to THE non-blocking web platform. I think Go (and heck even Clojure wi

I don't know if Node will win for THE non-blocking platform award, but it's coming close to THE non-blocking web platform. I think Go (and heck even Clojure with it's added core.async model) would be better at winning the first award. They are much more general and can be used freely. Node is basically limited to web and web servers (including tcp servers here). I think Node is turning onto generator mode. Now that generators hit V8 (and Node under a flag), it's much easier to write async code (even easier than callbacks) yet you write in a synchronous style. That'll definitely improve the concurrency model.