Edited excerpt from Freenode#node.js

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owen1: what is the reason that almost everything in node is async?
myndzi: async because that's the point of having a single threaded event loop system
owen1: so since node just uses javascript, even if ryan wanted to make it sync, it would be impossible?
myndzi: it's possible to make synchronous functions in node, but it would pretty much defeat the purpose
myndzi: it's kind of like asking "why aren't you using asparagus in this apple pie?"
myndzi: it's not like you can't bake an asparagus pie, it's more like why would you want to? :P