[jmspring]

I wish it were snark, but experience leads me to the conclusion that most people without a development background (even some that do) conclude that node will deliver us to the promised land, just after a short time with it.

Not much for monotheism myself.

[kryten]

As a veteran programmer (20 years now, pretty much everything out there), I spent a couple of days with Node to see what all the fuss was about.

I walked out with 'meh' after working out I can shift more requests with asp.net and the tooling was better on asp.net as well.

Node looks good on paper but the new approach and scalability is pointless when you're losing perhaps 1-2% of a request on your web server and framework and actually having to do some work in the back end. JavaScript sucks for that and so does node's async model.

Node just makes stuff harder.

Not for monotheism either which is why you can swap asp.net, java EE or python/flask with the above and I'll say the same.

[jmspring]

Agreed.

I actually find the await/async model of C#/.NET 4.5 less hideous than the callback hell of Node.

That said, there is an attraction to tipping up a basic server in a dozen or so lines of code.

[kryten]

Golang seems to fit that bill for me. I'm using it more every day now.