[ifrit]

I can't imagine an idea that is worse than this. Yes, let's take a community approach to OS, fine. But relying on a language that is neither efficient nor designed with the core needs of an operating system is self defeating at best.

[RadioactiveMan]

While I'd agree that it's not a good idea for a lot of purposes, that doesn't mean it's simply not a good idea. People will either be interested in playing with it or they wont, in which case it will simply cease to be developed, and the code will float around the Internet as an example of a cool little experiment. Either way, Node OS is not going to hurt anyone.