I can't wait ... we routinely have a quarter million concurrent users hitting our servers, node.js could let us do lots of cool stuff.

What? I'm excited! :)

Me too! I've still yet to meet a real live .net dev who is actually panicking.

From what I've seen, the .NET community is actually really excited, as are a lot of MS folks (myself included!)

I believe Parent is making fun of the overreaction to the Silverlight and Windows 8 news.

That overreaction was one of the funniest things I've read online in some time.

Please read this http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/windows-8-for-...

Don't get me started :-/