They might be synonyms for some people but it's important to understand the fundamental differences. There's no false advertising here, if people misunderstand the terminology it's not a JS fault. JS is not parallel, that's absolutely true. It's concurrent. Concurrency is a design decision, it doesn't have anything to do with multitasking, parallel execution, threads etc. It's just small blocking callbacks on steroids if you wish. Everything is put into a callback and a supervising scheduler (a part of the same program, not the OS) chooses which one to execute.
If some people want to believe in something that's not there, it's a sect, cargo cult, religion, you name it. I'd like to dig deeper and know the underlying truth instead of marketing bs or things pretending to be what they're not.
Further reading, if you're interested: actor model, greenlets, coroutines (boost::asio or goroutines are good examples). There are different approaches to concurrency while parallelism isn't that diverse — it's just code that runs on different threads and managed by the OS. The context switching is also quite expensive, that's why concurrency is this popular, you can achieve almost-multitasking for almost no cost.
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They might be synonyms for some people but it's important to understand the fundamental differences. There's no false advertising here, if people misunderstand the terminology it's not a JS fault. JS is not parallel, that's absolutely true. It's concurrent. Concurrency is a design decision, it doesn't have anything to do with multitasking, parallel execution, threads etc. It's just small blocking callbacks on steroids if you wish. Everything is put into a callback and a supervising scheduler (a part of the same program, not the OS) chooses which one to execute.
If some people want to believe in something that's not there, it's a sect, cargo cult, religion, you name it. I'd like to dig deeper and know the underlying truth instead of marketing bs or things pretending to be what they're not.
Further reading, if you're interested: actor model, greenlets, coroutines (boost::asio or goroutines are good examples). There are different approaches to concurrency while parallelism isn't that diverse — it's just code that runs on different threads and managed by the OS. The context switching is also quite expensive, that's why concurrency is this popular, you can achieve almost-multitasking for almost no cost.