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Nicolás Quiroz

I mean, you don't have to deal with multiple threads like you do if you're working with other server-side languages.

Multi-threading is hard, like sharing data between threads. If you are working with server-side web programming in PHP, Java, Python, etc you will have to deal with it unless you have very low traffic APIs or services.

I think Go's approach to concurrency with "light threads" and goroutines is better than the async model though, but Node's was quite clever.

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Jochem Stoel

I think I have never reached any point where I needed to deal with multi-threading when I was writing something in for instance PHP. I suspect that I do this all the time.