[tjholowaychuk]

Agreed, and as computing grows messaging will just get cheaper and cheaper. zeromq is a great example of that, 5 million messages per second over TCP on a macbook air is not half bad.

Personally I like static typing, especially if somewhat optional, it's something we effectively do through documentation anyway (via JSdoc or similar), but makes it concrete.

I dont think light-weight threads sharing memory is so bad, symmetric coroutines are more or less the same as an event loop IMO, the thought put into working with them is more or less identical, just without callback hell and odd error-handling, but I suppose going all-out with message passing could be fine. I think that's still a bit of an implementation detail unless you get rid of the concept of a process all together and start just having a sea of routines that talk to each other.