• Category: Pulse
  • Status: discussion
  • Sources: discussion
  • Summary: The Bun shared-memory threads PR (covered in Top stories and Languages) drew a 216-comment HN thread debating whether shared-heap threading belongs in a JavaScript runtime and how application code that assumes single-threaded semantics would cope with real data races.
  • Why it matters: The volume and substance of the discussion reflect practitioner interest in JavaScript parallelism beyond the worker model.

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