Isn't this essentially saying that events need a catalyst, there needs to be some external stimulus for something to occur? That's fine. Synchronous programs ha

Isn't this essentially saying that events need a catalyst, there needs to be some external stimulus for something to occur? That's fine. Synchronous programs have that stimulus. It's called "user action". The program, like the CPU, waits until the entity running the show tells it it would like something to happen. Then it does that something in the order specified. So yes, the CPU waits for the program to ask for some work, just like the program waits for the user to ask for some work. When that work is requested, the program is executed synchronously. I really don't understand how this argument supports the mess that is Node.js.