[latchkey]

When your nodejs instances are crashing several times an hour due to facebook randomly returning html instead of json and the 3rd party library crashing as a result, who has time for maturity? =)

[doomslice]

Wouldn't a simple uncaughtException handler be sufficient to prevent most crashes?

    process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
      // log it
    });

[latchkey]

From the documentation:

"Don't use it, use domains instead. If you do use it, restart your application after every unhandled exception!"

http://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_event_uncaughtexc...