I'm a Haskeller but I'll defend Node a bit. The absolute most compelling thing about Node is how it has hacked organizational dynamics in large companies. Walm

I'm a Haskeller but I'll defend Node a bit. The absolute most compelling thing about Node is how it has hacked organizational dynamics in large companies. Walmart and PayPal basically used it to completely liberate their frontend groups from their backend systems using facade system with huge improvements on customer systems. What is sad is that all the other high concurrency systems are going to end up implementing much of the GHC runtime without the reliability of Haskell...