I'm not totally sure what the intention of this article is. Is it to deter people away from using node as an application platform? Is it to deter people away f

I'm not totally sure what the intention of this article is. Is it to deter people away from using node as an application platform? Is it to deter people away from web programming in general? Is it to deter people away from using Macs? In each case no hard evidence is given. Just a lot of baseless opinions. I don't think this article is appropriate for HN. I didn't learn anything useful from this. If it was meant to be an opinion piece to influence how programmers think, it wasn't done very tastefully. What this article does best is reflect the immaturity of its author. As far as the node project being over, I don't think that's true. There are surely IO scheduler optimizations that could be made ala http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask035-voellmy.pdf http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask03.... The speed of JS code could always be improved. The HTTP standard is currently evolving and those changes will need to be made. There are probably other examples I'm failing to list.