But how's Node.js "backwards"?
It seems to me that the author has picked on one statement by one individual, and turned that into a link-bait.
There's a lot of research surrounding CPS-transformed code (look at Orbit (http://people.csail.mit.edu/riastradh/t/adams86orbit.pdf), for example), but nobody ever needed to manage it by hand.
For a more meaningful comparison between Node and Erlang, look at how they handle errors.
But how's Node.js "backwards"?
It seems to me that the author has picked on one statement by one individual, and turned that into a link-bait.