[rian]

IMHO i think node.js sucks because it forces you to manually pass callbacks around. can't it remember my call site for me and use coroutines or call/cc or yield or something? even fork() exists on UNIX (or pthread_create()). why is passing callbacks around the answer? it's like using GOTO.

[dbattaglia]

It's painful but I can see why they don't want to be touching the V8 engine itself (as tempting as it probably is). Short of doing that you are stuck doing things the old-fashioned way (that is, callbacks).

I'm sure things will be a lot better if/when the V8 engine supports let/yield.

[ricardobeat]

It can actually:

http://onilabs.com/stratifiedjs https://github.com/0ctave/node-sync