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But in ordinary JS there just can't be a race condition, everything is single threaded.
> This simplifies access to shared state without race conditions
But in ordinary JS there just can't be a race condition, everything is single threaded.
You can definitely have a race condition in JS. Being single-threaded means you don't have parallelism, but you still have concurrency, and that's enough to have race conditions. For example you might have some code that behaves differently depending on which promise resolves first.