I attended a couple of Ryan Dahl's tutorial sessions on node. I think the
idea is better than some other ideas I have heard/experienced. The big
problem is the community/eco system. If Ryan decides to tackle everything on
his own and only bind to v8 engine, then probably nodejs still got a long
way to see the light of the tunnel. Regardless how nodejs will be, I think
generally speaking, server side javascript is a pretty good idea.