Same was true of Java. Sun called it the "AWT event dispatch thread." Any process that does computation or blocks on IO should run in a separate thread and peri

Same was true of Java. Sun called it the "AWT event dispatch thread." Any process that does computation or blocks on IO should run in a separate thread and periodically post updates to the UI via an event queue. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/EventQueue.html#invokeLater(java.lang.Runnable) https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/EventQueu...