"I think the async vs. sync debate in the Node community stems from the fact that people see the two approaches as being polar opposites of each other. The truth of the matter is that an async approach is nothing new and lower level processes (interrupts etc.) have been async all along, Node has just exposed this asynchronicity to the user space in an accessible manner. Sync is an abstraction on top of async and as such has a number of pros, but also cons, compared to the lower level of abstraction that it relies on. Looking at any of my common-node examples (http://olegp.github.com/common... should make it clear what those are. So, you should view us "node-fibers guys" as your users (see interview with Linus: http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/F... rather than detractors & hopefully we will all be able to get along." - Oleg Podsechin