Comment by wisty

So what's stopping you putting nginx in front of node?

If you're worried about the maturity of its library, availability of good developers, or just that JS is an ugly language (and Coffee-script is too boutique), or Java is just faster, that's a good reason. Though there are lots of people who use the slow and ugly PHP (which seems to get good milage - Facebook and Wikipedia are doing OK with it).

I don't like JS, so I wouldn't use Node, but that doesn't mean it's crap.