Thanks everyone. I've gotten generally supportive messages from many people who are actual open source developers, they understand how it! everyone else, well I think they'll figure it out eventually. I have been quite successful at ignoring them it seems (I havn't looked at hackernews, and wouldn't recommend that in general ;)

@neftaly I remember the good old days when "because there is already a module for everything" wasn't the reason to use node. That was a long time ago now.