node.js is the new java

it greatly improves on it's predecessors
familiar syntax
it's designed to be practical, to the chagrin of CS purists
next-generation of applications being built (hadoop, palantir, runsecape :  asana, meteor)

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The mental and technical overhead of handling asynchronicity outweigh its advantages, since it has none. There really is no place for asynchronous callbacks outside of a hardware interrupt queueing events in a buffer and waking a thread up from select or similar.
Think about it and if you still think my claim is ludicrous afterwards, ask again for examples.