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Discussion on: Is JavaScript Synchronous or Asynchronous?

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Maximilian Burszley • Edited

You're confusing a lot of concepts here. Concurrency (async) has nothing to do with threading vs multiprocessing or whatever model you use. It's about "parallel" execution. JavaScript is synchronous by default. JavaScript is just a language, it is neither fast or slow. That is up to its engines.