I think that his main issue is/was that node isn't robust enough. I agree, but personally think that promises largely solve that issue. Streams are still a bit

I think that his main issue is/was that node isn't robust enough. I agree, but personally think that promises largely solve that issue. Streams are still a bit icky though. He also says that node isn't moving fast anymore, which is unfortunately true. The node core team was stuck trying to release 0.12 for quite a while because of some significant changes to internals (V8, AsyncListener). Once 0.12 is out, things should be much easier. On the plus side, the ecosystem is still moving at the same speed which is pretty great, and JS gets new advanced tooling every day: typescript, flow, 5 (!) es6 compilers...