On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Benjamin Pasero
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Why is node.js not using the native capabilities of loading files async on
> platforms where it is supported like windows?

Because there are restrictions on native asynchronous file I/O that
make it impractical for anything that isn't a database.

That's not a knock on Windows, by the way - Linux and FreeBSD have
similar limitations.

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