My comment on http://codeslinger.posterous.com/if-youre-using-nodejs-youre-doing-life-wrong
Wow, where to begin.
I normally don't reply to posts like this but today I just can't help myself.
First off, your experience w/ v8 inside some homegrown crawler as anecdotal evidence that it's buggy is kind of insane. That's not node, your bindings and, i will have to assume your DOM implementation for your crawler, are hardly getting the benefit of a large community testing and flushing out problems. If you create anything new, it'll be buggy, especially if it's complicated, and most especially if your expertise lies elsewhere (in your case I will assume it's Scala).