[DrJ]

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/05/nodejs-at-facebook...

I remember there was HN item about this when it came out, but tl;dr of the article that I got was, some people want to use Node.js but performance + stability is what FaceBook wants, and something that isn't prevalent in Node (yet?)

I wait for the day when NodeJS breaks backward compatability

[crcastle]

node.js breaks backward compatibility every time it increments the x in its 0.x.y version number.