> The single-event-thread design is not without its own problem; programmers have difficulty in understanding and abiding to it too. Definitely not my experien

> The single-event-thread design is not without its own problem; programmers have difficulty in understanding and abiding to it too. Definitely not my experience. jQuery is very popular among unskilled programmers because its async model is very easy to understand. I use it to teach async! > That problem cannot be reduced by some API or language trick. Why? Reducing problem by API or language tricks is exactly what abstraction is for.