<i>it&#x27;s difficult to use it for anything serious without investing a lot of time into it.</i><p>Isn&#x27;t that true for many platforms?<p>Either way, I have multiple apps running Node in production, and I&#x27;ve never had the issues described. You don&#x27;t have to be as breakneck as Node itself - some things I have are still running v0.10x just fine.