This is getting a bit old. Nobody's arguing JavaScript is the best (or even a particularly good) language for server development. Node's popularity for a large part is due to the fact that it turns JavaScript developers into full stack developers rather quickly which for a lot of companies can be a very (cost) effective approach.

Man, all of these complaints just feel so outdated. Check out --harmony flags, traceur, promises, stack trace libs, etc.

Traceur is not fixing JavaScript per se. It's just another high-level language transpiling to JS at the moment. So his complaint is still relevant.

Kinda relevant, and less and less relevant every day