I think another part of what makes NodeJS look simple is that JS uses async a lot, especially in the browser, so when you do server-side JS and use async, it fe

I think another part of what makes NodeJS look simple is that JS uses async a lot, especially in the browser, so when you do server-side JS and use async, it feels natural because that's how you do things in JS. In other languages, async doesn't feel as natural.