Who said that Node.js scales ?

[Martin Nowak]

On Tue, 22 May 2012 20:47:33 +0200, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ha yes, it is on the website.
>
> You'll find here an article about that, and how Go do much better  
> because of goroutines :
>
> http://blog.bitcartel.com/2012/05/nodejs-cpu-blocking-thing.html
>
> I'd be very interested to know how D compare to that, for example with  
> vide.d ?

I'd say that this is a very weak argument. Considering the uptime of a
server application there is plenty of time to compile javascript to very
efficient code.
Where the JIT does not suffice they can go the FFI route.
The scary part of Node.js is using callbacks to structure control flow.