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I think the most important line for me is about wanting computers to be like lego blocks. I think that's an admirable goal and I think that if Node as a community of programmers and projects owned that more ("We're Mindstorms, not NASA, here!") it'd get a great deal of love from the rest of the community.
Sadly, that probably won't happen since Mindstorms sounds diminutive and no collection of people has an ego so in check.
"Node is popular because it allows normal people to do high concurrency servers." vs "If my job was keeping Twitter up, of course I'd using a robust technology like the JVM." ==> So Node is not actually good for high concurrency servers?
"I want programming computers to be like coloring with crayons and playing with duplo blocks." ==> The wonderful wonderful thing about Duplo is it composes. Continuation-passing style (i.e. callback hell) is the paradigmatic example of a non-compositional whole program transform.
"Node has a large number of newbie programmers." vs "Node is popular because it allows normal people to do high concurrency servers." ==> Newbies are writing high concurrency servers?
"I'm a systems person attempting to make programming better." and "Node is popular because it allows normal people to do high concurrency servers." vs "If my job was keeping Twitter up, of course I'd using a robust technology like the JVM." ==> If Node isn't actually good for its intended use case how exactly are you making programming better?
I'm also pretty sure that high concurrency means a variety of things allowing a distinction between Node High Concurrency capability and Twitter High Concurrency need. If Node allows newbies to achieve higher concurrency than other newbie tools (PHP, Rails) then I think it can achieve that task to some degree.
