A lot of the Node issues seems to be due to the fact that it's a very new language. Sure JS has been around for a long time but the problem domain was small and very different from what Node is trying to achieve. Couple that with some issues other languages don't have (JS's standard library is quite thin) and I'm not surprised at these issues. I felt bits of this playing with Clojure and Go when they were new.
I imagine a lot of these issues will settle down in the next few years as one or two sets of conventions become de facto standards.
I imagine a lot of these issues will settle down in the next few years as one or two sets of conventions become de facto standards.