> That directly affected Node.js as an implementation. It didn’t “affect” node, it was the whole reason it came to exist: its cooperative multitasking was a go

> That directly affected Node.js as an implementation. It didn’t “affect” node, it was the whole reason it came to exist: its cooperative multitasking was a good way to tackle concurrency (remember c10k), and V8 was available and easily embeddable. Without the event loop there would have been no reason to choose JS.