I am a huge JS fan and I agree, for purely server side plays it’s probably not the best choice.

I actually think Node has not yet realized its best feature. It’s still in a research phase while it learns its best trick: components that bridge the client and server.

Meteor was an attempt. And server side boot in the MVC frameworks is another attempt. But both are wrong. Both try to create anonymous code that doesn’t know whether it’s on the client or server. But the client and server are different. The winning solution will acknowledge that, and just help the component do both. Once we have components that span client and server we can then write applications that don’t deal directly with HTTP. But not before.

That’ll be a huge thing.