[sametmax]

That's why Python does the contrary and let you use the event loop explicitly. But then the problem is that you have to deal with it even for simple things.

I think the balance is missing here.

[johnfn]

I think the balance is node, which allows an implicit event loop (via async/await), or an explicit event loop (via using coroutines as standins for async functions and manually yielding them).

[badminton1]

There is "the" event loop in node. http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/loop.html