Most people don't understand the work "complect" ([kəmˈplɛkt] vb (tr) Archaic to interweave or entwine). They probably (as I did) thought it was a typo for 'are complicated', making your whole comment a tautology. Or perhaps they thought you were trying to start a flame war by mentioning Rails.
I mentioned Rails because Django and Rails are extremely similar as they try to solve the same problem with similar approaches. The differences in how the two work come down to philosophy. Rails trades a lot more simplicity for ease of use with its "convention over configuration" approach. Django chooses more simplicity over ease of use.
If I were to diagram those two and Node.js, I'd say it looks like this:
Yup. It was such a good talk, I assumed it had made the rounds among HNers that I didn't need to link to is. I assumed wrong.
It is a brilliant talk. The only part that he left out of the discussion, but is worthy of a talk in its own right is the notion of the community (formation and characteristics) as one of the artifacts that result from the constructs of a language.
