yeah, basically. a lot of people do not know, but async/await does have NOTHING do to with threads or processes. you can use threads with async/await, but you d

yeah, basically. a lot of people do not know, but async/await does have NOTHING do to with threads or processes. you can use threads with async/await, but you do not. async/await basically means you are running your "green threads"/tasks/promises on a event loop, the event loop can be either single threaded or it can run the stuff on multiple threads. a lot of people just did not get the difference between concurrency vs. parallelism. threads and processes are basically parallelism, while concurrency is async programming. good talk about that stuff from rob pike (go): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg