Why is Node.js single threaded? [closed]

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Node.js was created explicitly as an experiment in async processing. The theory was that doing async processing on a single thread could provide more performance and scalability under typical web loads than the typical thread-based implementation.

And you know what? In my opinion that theory’s been borne out. A node.js app that isn’t doing CPU intensive stuff can run thousands more concurrent connections than Apache or IIS or other thread-based servers.

The single threaded, async nature does make things complicated. But do you honestly think it’s more complicated than threading? One race condition can ruin your entire month! Or empty out your thread pool due to some setting somewhere and watch your response time slow to a crawl! Not to mention deadlocks, priority inversions, and all the other gyrations that go with multithreading.

In the end, I don’t think it’s universally better or worse; it’s different, and sometimes it’s better and sometimes it’s not. Use the right tool for the job.

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