The second anybody mentions callback hell, I know for certain that they have never come close to seriously developing in Node. Callback Hell is completely negated by using promises, which any developer who seriously works with Node is already doing.
Javascript lacks static typing in the same way that Python and Ruby do. If you want static typing, TypeScript is stronger than any tool that exists for either of those languages.
Good luck developing offline? What are you talking about?
Over engineered UI frameworks...what does this have to do with NodeJS applications. Most server applications these days have absolutely nothing to do with the UI whatsoever.
Scaling is a pain in the ass? How do you figure? The entire concept of scaling in NodeJS is based off of replication in a cluster, it could not be easier to scale. You linearly add more instances of your application to a cluster of infinite scale.
Doing a series of asynchronous tasks would at WORST look like this using promises: http://paste.ofcode.org/Nx2infQQ2aESNxxiwJC7cN
Javascript lacks static typing in the same way that Python and Ruby do. If you want static typing, TypeScript is stronger than any tool that exists for either of those languages.
Good luck developing offline? What are you talking about?
Over engineered UI frameworks...what does this have to do with NodeJS applications. Most server applications these days have absolutely nothing to do with the UI whatsoever.
Scaling is a pain in the ass? How do you figure? The entire concept of scaling in NodeJS is based off of replication in a cluster, it could not be easier to scale. You linearly add more instances of your application to a cluster of infinite scale.