Personally I just like that things are async by default. That means that if you are using a 3rd party library, it will be async from the start. In something l

Personally I just like that things are async by default. That means that if you are using a 3rd party library, it will be async from the start. In something like python you need to work to get a fully async app, but in node you should file bugs if something blocks on IO.