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Comment by kvathupo | Hacker News Reader

You can't create lock-free data structures in Javascript (as of this comment), but you can do so in Java.

Javascript is singlethreaded. No locks and therefore no lockfree datastructures necessary. Even webworkers are only communicated with via copying messages.

  Javascript is singlethreaded

… which is why the root comment looks like pure trolling.

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