Your comments are probably not intended to make anyone laugh but I'm enjoying them. But what you're saying is so true. I'd like to take it a bit further and add there's a reason while the implementation is slightly barbaric, Node.js continues to thrive. While I don't use Node, I have, and tend to think making things even more 'regressive' than say, Java, is the right way forward for most work.
Writing multi-pthreaded Java apps is not my idea of a good time. I am very interested in Elixir, but at the same time recognize that in reality I use Python. And if folks want to knock themselves out writing multithreaded Java apps... to go use Java.
I think the Node model for most, if not almost everything, fits needs well with its single-threaded event loop and scaling by process. Explicitly spinning up pthreads should be reserved for systems-programming, and in which case you are probably going to be using C(++)/Rust(?).
>You'd think everybody is suddenly working with realtime stream analysis on huge datasets and are battling millions of concurrent users these days.
I almost want to archive this somewhere or put it on a plaque next to my desk.