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by 10098 4392 days ago
It's single threaded. Any compute-heavy task will block that single thread until it's over.
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In Node JS you can spawn child processes. It's also designed to be asynchronous. But what I like about JS is that it doesn't force me into paradigms.

And when you run something heavy in Node JS the VM can use many threads. So I think it's weird to say it's single threaded. Aren't all programming languages single threaded then?