I recently wrote a very high-volume server in Node.js, as an alternative to a Python server on AppEngine, & found it quite simple & cool. Most of us anyway move more & more of the application logic to the JavaScript front-end. Is it time to switch entirely to JavaScript?
I wrote an initial post about it (part of a series I plan to write):
Would be happy to hear your flames..
There's also an event on JavaScript later this month (hosted by my company), with 3 talks on the subject (I especially recommend the talk on CoffeScript & Node.js, by Adi Baron):
Sorry..
Udi