Hmm... can't tell if this is an attempted Node slam, but figured I would add that you can mimic threads / concurrent tasks by utilizing the child_process or cluster modules.

As a matter of fact, it certainly makes things a fair bit more pleasant than the current state of affairs as they -- shared array buffers -- are another data primitive on top of bidirectionally passing strings/buffers.

Not sure that anybody is "pretending" anything. Seems like you're just going out on a limb to be condescending.

I hope those kinds of comments do not start making their way towards HN. Reddit is getting so bad lately, an influx is probably due.