Comment by clojurerocks

Id have to disagree with that myself. While node and mongodb are both "shiny" they are because they solve a problem that people have and offer solutions to problems that are very appealing. Including as i mentioned i blieve in another comment here that using node allows you to only have ot work with one language. Which is great. So its true that python has similiar technologies such as tornado and twisted. But if node works then why not just stick to one technology to have to maintain rather then multiple ones. Also node has a great community that is increasing. Many python libraries dont have this. Meaning really documentation. For example tornado has very little documentation.