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It’s more complicated than “single threaded”. Javascript uses a thread pool. Otherwise asynchronous tasks would not be possible. Really when people say it’s single threaded, they mean the end user cannot spawn new threads manually, but the language uses many threads under the hood. Check out libuv which is the thread pool implementation used in Node
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