Do you have a reference for the "official policy" statement? Any experienced, systems developer, regardless of language, would never think that was a good thing.

In addition, it is not hard to handle the errors due to callbacks. The Node variant of Javascript is basically dynamically typed C and error handling actually follows a very similar pattern to what is standard practice in C. Fault-tolerant systems are hard, period. But since the most important fault-tolerant systems (cars, planes, etc) are all written in C. I do not see why it is "too hard" to build a fault-tolerant server with Node since error handling follows a similar pattern.

Just to be clear, I am not advocating the use of Javascript for automobile software.