As I wrote above, I like it a lot, too. It's a very simple, clean language without any silly flourishes, a good implementation and easily added to most projects.
But in your average web shop, the chances of finding someone who has already worked with it is pretty low, whereas JavaScript itself runs at about 100%. And I firmly believe that this is the biggest reason for the popularity of NodeJS. Not the concept (cf. eventlet, EventMachine, POE etc.), but the fact that you've been offered a simple package where you don't have to learn anything really new.
Still, I'm grateful for an extended toolkit myself, and I'm looking forward to what people can do with coroutines and tables to make the programming experience more pleasant.
But in your average web shop, the chances of finding someone who has already worked with it is pretty low, whereas JavaScript itself runs at about 100%. And I firmly believe that this is the biggest reason for the popularity of NodeJS. Not the concept (cf. eventlet, EventMachine, POE etc.), but the fact that you've been offered a simple package where you don't have to learn anything really new.
Still, I'm grateful for an extended toolkit myself, and I'm looking forward to what people can do with coroutines and tables to make the programming experience more pleasant.