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Not always. Node.js is very opinionated on advocating a closure-based model versus user-space threading.

• tptacek 16y ago
  "Closures" and user-space threads are two different approaches to the same end-state, which is code that is scheduled on I/O events instead of timeslices, and that implicitly manages all the state involved in the request.
  • rbranson 16y ago
    I can agree with you on this abstraction :)