How Is Javascript Asynchronous And Single Threaded?

Asynchronous programming is one of those programming paradigms that’s extremely difficult to fully understand, until you’ve done enough of it in practice. In an ideal world this shouldn’t be the case, so here’s yet another attempt to explain the concept of async programming, and why its different from parallel programming, in the context of javascript. Everything runs on a different thread except our code. At first glance, this sentence doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense....

 · Soham Kamani