To my friends in the Node community November 30th, 2013

Dear friends in the Node community, I’m excited and inspired by the work that you’re doing. Being new is exciting: you get to re-invent the world, and shape it to suit your purposes. You’re not bound by the mistakes other environments have accrued over the years. This has paid huge dividends. You’ve come up with a way to make asynchronous programming accessible to a much wider pool of programmers. You’re creating a set of tools that put developer experience first, proving that developer tools don’t have to have terrible user interfaces.…