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by hn_throwaway_99 1801 days ago
Agreed, but you have other single-threaded server languages like NodeJS which have the same problem (a new request can only be handled if the current request gives up control, usually waiting for IO) and people have figured out how to handle it.

I see Project Loom as really providing all the benefits of single threaded languages like Node (i.e. tons of scalability), but with an easier programming model that threads provide as opposed to using async/await.