Some people try to solve problems using threads...

#jokes

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Discussion (6)

Prahlad Yeri • Jul 4 '19 • Edited on Jul 4

I agree. Multi-threading introduces a lot more complexity to your app than needed, so they should be used sparingly and only as the very last resort.

In fact, async I/O is what you need most of the time when you think that you need multi-threading. Consider that JavaScript on server side is so fast compared to traditional interpreters like PHP/Python only because of async I/O and it doesn't even need multi-threading!

Michiel Hendriks • Jul 4 '19

Multi ~~threading~~ processing only introduces more complexity when you have mutable data.

async I/O does not solve problems which require multi threading to be solved, it solves an other problem which is made worse with multi threading. You need both; multi threading and async I/O.

Mihail Malo • Jul 4 '19

Real multithreading is much better than "clustering". You just need a borrow checker :v

Eugene Karataev • Jul 6 '19

Sometimes async I/O is not enough.
What about heavy CPU calculations? It'll block the main thread and make the application unresponsive. That's why Workers were introduced in Node 10.5.