2018 NOTE: this blog post is very out of date, and some things were wrong when I posted it. I had been doing Node.js for only a few months. The title was supposed to be provocative, responding to a discussion that was happening on technical blogs in 2010-2012. Today, In 2018, JavaScript is definitely a possible choice for CPU-bound tasks, but it’s rarely a lot of fun for that. As this blog post ev