I've looked into NodeJS and there is some confusion as to whether or not it is better than PHP. PHP itself has been around for quite some time and with the latest version they appear to have dealt with a lot of what was perceived to be wrong with the language. NodeJS on the other hand, isn't well built for the same task necessarily since Javascript was never designed to be a server-side language. Aside from that, the nature of a callback-dependent language makes the logic difficult for even seasoned programmers to get their heads around if you're doing things that are heavily intensive. Furthermore, NodeJs's libraries are not very stable at this point yet, it would seem. Which is not to say that there is no value in it, it is a very slick language. But I wonder if it will be able to fill the same niche as PHP does in the near-medium term. We'll see I guess.