Python used multiple threads to handle I/O long before async/await was a glimmer in anyone's mind (despite the GIL). nodejs is one of the very few languages I c

Python used multiple threads to handle I/O long before async/await was a glimmer in anyone's mind (despite the GIL). nodejs is one of the very few languages I can think of that was born single-threaded and used an asynchronous runtime from the get-go