Making easy things easy with node.js

Here's a nice little article noting that true popularity for a platform comes from how easy it is to build form-based database applications: consider Visual Basic, then PHP, then Rails. The idea is that making easy things easy lets a large community with varying skill levels use a technology, and that creates a dynamic environment that lets you get things done.

The author kind of ends on the note that he hopes this will happen for node.js.