[goatlover]

What does it mean that it "comes with the language"? In what way is Javascript the language any more asynch than Python, PHP, or Ruby? The browser and Node environment are not JS the language. They are the environments JS predominantly runs in, and they provide async events, which could be done with any language running in similar environments.

[paulddraper]

Would your objection be appeased if he said "comes with the environment"?

IDK of any Python, Ruby, or PHP runtime that has Node's paradigm of single threaded + concurrent I/O.

[PrimHelios]

Would Python handle async well with the GIL?