Comment by dahart

I know we’re kind stuck with the term of art “concurrent”, and will forever have to explain the difference between the synonymous words “concurrent” and “parallel” — The Merriam Webster definition of “concurrent” uses the word “parallel”, for example.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could come up with a better word for this that doesn’t literally overlap with ‘parallel’ and doesn’t need to deviate so far from it’s dictionary definition?

Personally I think of JavaScript as ‘asynchronous’, and I know this as a term of art means a programming model, but it’s a lot easier to see that async can be done with a single thread and isn’t necessarily parallel, right?