alt Hacker NewsJavaScript's execution model uses cooperative concurrency to avoid a tons of data races, preemptive non-parallel concurrency would make all web development incredibly harder
JavaScript's execution model uses cooperative concurrency to avoid a tons of data races, preemptive non-parallel concurrency would make all web development incredibly harder
Yes, I was talking from a performance/UX standpoint.
Of course, doing everything in one thread most of the time makes everything easier, because you're using the thread as the lock, so to speak. But using locks is bad for performance and latency and thus UX.