> Successful, popular concurrent platforms like [...] node.js, eschew threads in favor a single-threaded, async/non-blocking code model Except that Node (by wa

> Successful, popular concurrent platforms like [...] node.js, eschew threads in favor a single-threaded, async/non-blocking code model Except that Node (by way of libuv) uses thread pools internally for things that it deems to be CPU-intensive enough to need it, like crypto.