I think most of the reaction to your response was due to your tone. I've seen a lot of blog posts where someone was mind-bogglingly astray* , and coming in sayi

I think most of the reaction to your response was due to your tone. I've seen a lot of blog posts where someone was mind-bogglingly astray* , and coming in saying "You're all wrong, you idiots, they solved this problem in the 70s, ..." just makes people ignore you. I think suggesting leads for further exploration (in this case, libevent, nginx, etc.) is more helpful, without being a slap in the face. * Whereas this series seems to be people getting excited about using Unix syscalls from their preferred scripting languages, probably for the first time.