Multithreading Library: Rust-Inspired Concurrency Primitives for JavaScript Ecosystem
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Summary
Multithreading is a TypeScript library that brings Rust-inspired concurrency primitives to JavaScript, providing thread-pool architecture, memory safety semantics, and synchronization primitives like Mutexes, Semaphores, Read-Write Locks, and Condition Variables. The library abstracts away the complexity of managing WebWorkers, serialization, and SharedArrayBuffer complexities, allowing developers to write multi-threaded code that works across browser, Node.js, Deno, and Bun environments.
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It provides a thread-pool architecture, strict memory safety semantics, and synchronization primitives like Mutexes, Semaphores, Read-Write Locks, and Condition Variables.
This library is designed to abstract away the complexity of managing WebWorkers, serialization, and SharedArrayBuffer complexities.
The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript (Works in the browser, Node.js, Deno, Bun).
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