Ryan Dahl (creator of Node) tweeted that "this looks pretty awesome":
http://twitter.com/ryah/status/148659426897825792It looks very Rails-y with many sensible defaults (e.g. automatic CSRF for forms), but is quite a bit more lightweight. Making Redis a dependency is a smart choice; you need to store all session state, etc. outside of the process in order to cluster a Node app and take advantage of all cores.