That link is a good example of exactly why we need to push for languages to take concurrency seriously. That's an example of how a haskell user has to deal with the issue when interfacing with a C lib that rolled their own event loop. For most languages people have to deal with that issue all the time, for their own code, entirely in that one language.

I have no idea why you are talking about pixie dust. My point was that explicitly using event loops instead of abstracting it into a green thread library is dumb, and we need to start having higher expectations from languages rather than accepting backwards shit like node. Not "green threads are magic".