> It's for fad chasers who have no idea how real servers manage to serve volume.
I think that pquerna has some pretty good ideas about how "real servers" work, but leaving that be, you could actually explain what's wrong with the system, rather than attack the people.
Having some Erlang experience myself, I can find plenty not to like about node.js. However, the Erlang guys have fired round after round into their own feet to the point where even if it's inferior, node.js has probably already surpassed Erlang for many server tasks.
They had, years ago, a clearly superior platform for event-driven programming (none of these weird callbacks). They have more or less failed to capitalize on it in terms of getting mainstream traction.
I think that pquerna has some pretty good ideas about how "real servers" work, but leaving that be, you could actually explain what's wrong with the system, rather than attack the people.
Having some Erlang experience myself, I can find plenty not to like about node.js. However, the Erlang guys have fired round after round into their own feet to the point where even if it's inferior, node.js has probably already surpassed Erlang for many server tasks.