title: Is it possible to emulate JS's setTimeout in Sinatra / Synchrony?
body: <p>I'm possibly looking for an alternative to node.js - some really nice things about it are setTimeout() and setInterval().</p>
  
  <p>I found that Sinatra has a <a href="https://github.com/igrigorik/em-synchrony" rel="nofollow">plugin called Synchrony</a> which looks like something I might actually use.</p>
  
  <p>Is it reasonable to just make a new thread and have it do a busywait or something?</p>