title: Node.js vs Python
body: <p>I'm rewriting my server and deciding between using Node.js and Python.</p>
  
  <p>I prefer Javascript (as I'm extremely well versed in it) but <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111221233322/http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this article</a> is giving me pause.  I'm curious if anyone has had any problems but also, I'm curious if there are any platform related virtues to one over the other.  </p>
  
  <p>Specifically, do either of them not-support/limit/excel-at </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>mySQL calls   </li>
  <li>imageMajik interaction  </li>
  <li>calls out to the system for file-system manipulation </li>
  <li>calls to the web via WGET/Curl anything else</li>
  <li>you can think of that normal CGI processes have to deal with.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I don't want to start an argument about the virtues of PHP or .Net, I have made a definitive decision to move to either Python or Node.js and was totally settled on Node.js, until I read the above article, so, really, I'm just looking for specific problems/virtues that people have had with these two tools.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance. </p>