I understand all the things you're talking about, and I agree, you can block the main thread (and elixir does not use the OS processes so it's awesome...). I do

I understand all the things you're talking about, and I agree, you can block the main thread (and elixir does not use the OS processes so it's awesome...). I do disagree with the take on await/async but that's a different discussion. Is the article insightful? Mostly, yes. Did Node and JS have to be painted this way? probably not.