[cageface]

This is why I've been dismayed to see JS taking off on the server side. Maybe there's some clever engineering behind Node and maybe taking a free ride on V8 is a lot less work than building a similarly robust VM for Ruby or Python but it just seems wrong to build the next generation of apps on such a flawed language.

The explosion of the web opened the doors to new languages after a long stagnation of client-side code. Why let an accident of browser development history dictate the tools we use for the next 5-10 years?

[SkyMarshal]

Node probably will end up like both the JVM and client-side JS have become - a compile targets for better languages. Not ideal, but good enough I expect.