I agree with you, I should've phrased that differently. What I meant to say is that a lot of people using it will use it for something which would be better served using Erlang and this will definitely get worse when the tools and runtime improve. If you are using Erlang already , you will probably never move, but if you are new to it, you will be tempted to use Node.js instead, even though Erlang might be a better fit. That's what I meant; sorry for not stating that more clearly.