Yeah but I've seen several people who tries node dismiss it on the grounds that this programming style is immensly complex and incomprehensible. In this guys words "The async-style of programming is almost entirely inaccessible to my brain".
I just find it contradicting then that every man and his dog seems to be able to whip up some client side Javascript which works in the same way..
On the server, you can do whatever you want, and you're free to choose something better.