"It's fascinating that people are going to this much trouble to be able to write server side JavaScript using Node. For most real world web applications, your app will be spending a tiny fraction of the total request/response cycle in the web tier, so why bother optimizing it in the first instance? Why not go with a synchronous, blocking platform like RingoJS (http://ringojs.org) or Akshell (http://www.akshell.com) instead and save yourself all the trouble?" - Oleg Podsechin