Comment by phamilton

"Node is easy for one guy to setup a working website. Isn't that a good thing?"

Having not played with production Node.js, I'm no expert. But the impression I get from the post is not that. Aside from his attack on javascript syntax (which I agree with, but can be fixed by using coffeescript) his real statement is that perceived simplicity leads to problems. If node is easy for one guy to set up a working website, did we just enable one more badly written and unstable website? We've seen countless examples of bad websites getting hacked and personal information being exposed. As a person browsing the web, I have no way of knowing whether a site is run behind nginx or directly from node. If I give them personal information, I sure hope it's behind nginx. I trust nginx to be more mature and secure than node. But if a new programmer isn't told up front that running directly from node is a bad idea, my overall browsing experience just got a littler riskier.