Contrarian viewpoint…
In #Scala, IO does not exist because of “fibers” (green threads). Ditto for Java's “reactive” libraries. That was just the marketing brochure. You could have lived w/ blocking I/O, given that Linux+JVM can handle 10s of thousands of threads (1:1).
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