FORGE-DRIVEN-DEVELOPMENT

All of that is to say that all of my web development work has been primarily in a particular abstraction, with little or no "Close to the Metal" type work I finally find myself in a place where I have enough time and determination to work with technologies (like MVC) that allow me to reach outside of those pre-made abstractions. The challenge is, that with all the time spent there, I don't know what I don't know. So, to the true question.

Since the node http machinery runs pretty close to the metal, it wouldn't be advised to test every conceivable http based handler in this fashion as the mock would be too much of an abstraction

What are the ramifications of Node.js in terms of Zeno's paradox vis-a-vis diving in close to the metal? Just how close to the metal can you get?

Imagine Linus had built Linux using fucking node.js I cannot, almost as a rule, trust anybody who has not tried a variety of mind altering substances. RAM really is a harmful kludge. Neither Turing machines nor lambda calculus call for some of an algorithm’s state to suddenly be obliterated I’ll often drop down to node.js if I really need to be close to the metal