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libuv is used as the platform layer for node.js

libuv enforces an asynchronous, event-driven style of programming.
Its core job is to provide an event loop and callback based
notifications of I/O and other activities.  libuv offers core
utilities like timers, non-blocking networking support, asynchronous
file system access, child processes and more.