Ryan was developing Node for certain use cases. He chose the name "Node" because it was supposed to be a small piece of a larger web app. A few nested callbacks, programs that have a few hundred lines of code and don't have complex control flows work well. Hype created a large community which is pushing beyond such narrow goals. But it will take time to come up with good DSLs or add continuations to V8. For now the best solution is to learn how to organize async code, for which I've only seen one trivial example.
Ryan was developing Node for certain use cases. He chose the name "Node" because it was supposed to be a small piece of a larger web app. A few nested callbacks, programs that have a few hundred lines of code and don't have complex control flows work well. Hype created a large community which is pushing beyond such narrow goals. But it will take time to come up with good DSLs or add continuations to V8. For now the best solution is to learn how to organize async code, for which I've only seen one trivial example.