@wilfredh I'm skeptical that compilers are smart enough to convert sequential code into their event-driven equivalents in all cases. The author is right; the event-driven nature of an API needs to be architectural.

What we're seeing in blog posts like this is Unix finally admitting that VMS was right all along.

@wilfredh """Instead of a flow of code that issues syscalls when needed, that have to think about whether or not a file is ready, they naturally become an event-loop that constantly add things to a shared buffer, deals with the previous entries that completed, rinse, repeat."""

And, Amiga developers the world over read this and ask, "What took you so long?"