I've never worked with Node and probably never will, but it's pretty dishonest to conflate the sense of "blocking" as in "postponed execution" with "blocking" a

I've never worked with Node and probably never will, but it's pretty dishonest to conflate the sense of "blocking" as in "postponed execution" with "blocking" as in "executing an intensive CPU-bound job" to make a point that shouldn't be surprising to anyone who's paying attention.