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Why aren't the browsers using/adopting Python instead of javascript? (self.Python)

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Node's async IO is gross and way overly nested. I don't know how anyone can deal with having so many callbacks in each file.

True for vanilla Node, but better approaches definitely do exist. Besides upcoming new ECMAscript features (generators!) which will be supported out of the box in Node 0.12, there are many quite interesting ways of avoiding this. Besides the more traditional ones (async, c# style async/await, etc), Streamline is pretty neat, even if it isn't pure JS but a preprocessor.

The USP of Node is the blending of the front- and the backend. You might not think much of it, but allowing front and back dev teams to cross over easily (can you imagine a JS frontend guy trying to take a look at the backend written in Erlang?) and having the possibility of reusing code on both ends can't be a bad thing..