Here's the post by Ry that was supposedly deleted: http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html

The point I took away from the post is that all abstractions carry a cost, no matter how elegant. Not "Ryan Dahl hates Node.js". But sure.

Seems the author is intent on complaining and that's cool with me, but if you're doing Node then yeah don't let people like this get you down. Node's fast, Node's flexible and has so many users that virtually any abstraction you like is available through npm. Callbacks are part of core because it's the lowest common abstraction for Async. Node is not Python.

Tired devs can complain all they like, but that doesn't make them right.