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Wow, it's really nice to see an article that isn't a "my language/platform of choice is better than yours" rant. I'm especially surprised to see a Java developer embrace node.js so whole-heartedly.

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I've come from a Java background to node.js and have enjoyed it. I'd tried a few Java frameworks for web development (Grails to a large extent and lift/spring to a small extent) but was never really happy with them. I dabbled with RoR but found it too alien. I've got no criticism to level at RoR it just didn't feel right to me, possibly if I'd continued I'd either have a strong opinion about why it's wrong or would have learned to love it. Eventually I picked up node and really enjoyed using it to develop my latest site and will probably continue to use it in future if I can and if it makes sense. I'd recommend it to any dev looking for something to new to try out.

Just curious, are you using any framework in your Node projects?

"""Eventually I picked up node and really enjoyed using it to develop my latest site and will probably continue to use it in future if I can and if it makes sense."""

Node is a special purpose evented system, not for general web site creation, though it can abused to do both.

But I would not compare it with Grails/Life/Spring or Rails/Django/Cake/Symphony etc...

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