Straight Talk on Event Loops. After his beautiful rant "Node.js is Cancer" Ted Dziuba goes into more detail about what the problem is with pure async-event solutions like node.js. As a programmer of a rather old project in Python - the Toolserver for Python - I can certainly understand this. There are good reasons why I implemented threads integrated into the event loop for parallel processing as needed. This "async is faster and better than threads" is exactly the kind of hype nonsense like "NoSQL is faster and better than SQL" and other pigs that are currently being driven through the village.