I definitely got the feeling from toying with node that you're working at a very low level, basically interfacing with system calls. There's not necessarily any

I definitely got the feeling from toying with node that you're working at a very low level, basically interfacing with system calls. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that, but you have to understand that in order to know what you're doing. It's a curious experience to be using javascript on the one hand, and be doing extremely low-level systems programming on the other. It would be useful to have better documentation on exactly what those node functions do when you call them.