I agree that the current state of Node.JS is not good, however there is potential for a brighter future. The language itself is improving (such as ECMAScript 6 including yield/generators which will allow things like this https://github.com/visionmedia/co ) which should reduce the callback hell situation. Besides popularity and momentum, the language and runtimes have solid engineering talent behind them (Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others are on the ECMAScript committee and there's several big corporation supported JS engines (V8, SpiderMonkey, Chakra, etc.))
You got me excited there for a moment. Even the new features only talk about generators, not true closures. I see what they're doing with it in Co, but ... well, it's still ugly, and limited. Generators only let you go one function deep, after all; coroutines let you go as deep as you need.
But it does improve the situation, you're right. What I'd love to see happen, though, is for the browsers to all adopt asm.js so I can just run Lua in the browser, so I can be symmetrical with the server... ;)
>there's several big corporation supported JS engines
There's one awesome LuaJIT that's faster than any of the JavaScript engines, not to mention much smaller, easier to build cross-platform or embed, and easier to bind to C code. I only need one, after all. :)
