Not the original point perhaps, but its come around to that. A couple years ago they settled on callbacks after a fairly active debate, as the least ambiguous option for continuation passing. As more people explore Node, callbacks are one level of abstraction too deep or just too tedious for some people. Fortunately there's a great selection of asynch modules to help them.
I really enjoy the callback paradigm. I love how powerful the abstraction of async code is. In procedural paradigm, there are some things that you want to accomplish that you simply cannot create an abstraction for, because the operation you want to do is time based. With the power of callbacks, you can abstract away complex things with a single function.
