Indeed. That fluff article reminds me of the .NET spam around 2005. Pointing out three times that "the best developers...like to use new technologies": so, they leave you with a pile of smelling javascript over two years when they are heading for <fill in>. Are they the best by the way? or does it feel like being the best when you can finally add two numbers in a new language? Oh, and that "developer hapiness" argument again. Then: "composed from modules, piped together" contrasted with "traditional monolithic applications". So the writer (or the node developers he represents) was/were unable writing composable code in the other languages they know? (must be a lot, see above) Just wait until their piped modules look like this: http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/image/brazil21.jpg
rant over