Note that the 'academic theorists' you cite would rather use an actor based system (and not events), and elsewhere in academia there's quite outspoken criticism

Note that the 'academic theorists' you cite would rather use an actor based system (and not events), and elsewhere in academia there's quite outspoken criticism of event-based systems[1] even for high-concurrency use cases. So, yes, threads have their problems, but event-based systems are not the panacea. [1] http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/hotos03/tech/full_papers/vonbehren/vonbehren_html/ http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ho...