[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by connor.worley

By all means, go for it, but I wouldn't use it.

From: http://nodeguide.com/convincing_the_boss.html

Java has the same garbage collection issues, and it seems to me that most teams use it... If that's a concern teams should be using C++.

I'd be willing to help out, I write Node/JS every day (in addition to Java/Objective-C), the event'ed/streams Javascript model could be really useful for robot programing.