It's not an inflammatory blog post. The headline might be a little annoying to some, but not to most of us. There are negative headlines about every programming language platform.

Also it's a reminder for Node.js developers to make good use of async patterns, lest their code look silly. Besides async, which Fenn mentions in the comments, there's EventEmitters and Backbone.js for doing different styles of async programming. And there are a few other libraries that are a lot like https://github.com/caolan/async .