And because of the big community, there probably already are, or will be, more libraries available for it, meaning you have more ready-made blocks to build with.
I don't write this as a "supporter" of node.js, either - I've actually known and used Erlang for the past 8 years on and (mostly) off, and would highly encourage any hacker to have a look at it, because its way of doing things is quite enlightening, and, IMO, is superior to node.js.
Perhaps, but for many people, node.js will be "good enough".
http://journal.dedasys.com/2006/02/18/maximizers-satisficers...
And because of the big community, there probably already are, or will be, more libraries available for it, meaning you have more ready-made blocks to build with.
I don't write this as a "supporter" of node.js, either - I've actually known and used Erlang for the past 8 years on and (mostly) off, and would highly encourage any hacker to have a look at it, because its way of doing things is quite enlightening, and, IMO, is superior to node.js.