I'm astonished that this has been up for an hour and no one's mentioned Atwood's Law:<p>"Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."<p><a href="http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/</a>
One thing I can't seem to find is, is this a true nodejs-based operating system in that it's all single threaded? single-threaded event loop stuff works well for network servers but an OS? To me it seems like a terrible idea.
<< Die heart Node.js fan >><p>As much as I love Node.js, I have grown to dislike npm. Git + Github is a much nicer way to publish.<p>Also the whole left-pad fiasco.