The original article is so naive, it's no wonder he got a lot of negative feedback.

"The code that makes up node.js is carried out by the V8 javascript engine. This engine (read: the component that processes javascript so that it can be understood by your operating system) [...]"

No need for insults, but should one take advice on programming languages and frameworks from someone explaining them in such terms? He assumes you don't know what a virtual machine is or how programs get executed (or how they interact with the OS), yet he tries to convince people with the benefits of decoupling threads from connections.

I wonder who's the audience for this. And I fear it's people who read articles at such a level and then think they are capable of making technical decisions. Kind of like Gartner, I guess.