I would agree if you said language X is more expressive than Y, it can be proved. But isn't syntax totally subjective?

Missing critical features

Which critical features are missing?

Performance .. absymal

Well .. you would not notice any performance issues with typical web apps. You should try it.

Libraries are missing, are more bandages for its numerous problems

Github has an enormous collection of nodejs libraries. Which ones are bandages for language problems?

Tooling

I find text-editors and chrome better than IDEs like Eclipse and Visual Studio.