One interesting aspect of JavaScript is that, being event-driven in nature, the setTimeout function does not block. Consider the following example:
setTimeout(function(){
console.log('sleeping');
}, 10);
console.log('prints first!!');
This code will output 'prints first!!' before 'sleeping', as the JavaScript interpreter immediately moves on to the code below the setTimeout call rather than waiting for it to finish. The callback function is then executed after a delay of 10ms.
I have recently started working with Ruby and discovered its non-blocking support in the event-machine library. This got me thinking - can we create a similar effect to the JavaScript setTimeout example using a native Ruby function like sleep, without relying on event-machine? Is it possible to achieve such behavior using closures, procs, blocks, or any other feature of Ruby? I would appreciate any insights. Thank you!