We're all fanatics of some stripe. I just can't become a node fanatic. Async select-driven architectures are great in their own right. I implemented C++ servers this way back in the '90s and they worked great. So, in way, node is the second (third, fourth, fifth ?) coming. Yawn. Besides, as cool and as funky JS is, I definitely prefer statically-typed languages; I'm a scala fanatic now.