[bigiain]

Don't you think there's at least some validity to Ted's argument that the statement "Because nothing blocks, less-than-expert programmers are able to develop fast systems." from the node.js homepage is somewhat misleading?

As Ted points out, there are things like Fugue and Nginx which people who are not "less-that-expert-programmers" do, "experts" will be fine whether they've got magical behind the scenes async stuff going on or not. The question as I see it is - are the node.js docs/homepage misleading about how easy is is to "develop fast systems"?