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Concurrency is Not Parallelism — And Most Developers Conflate Them
Community description: There's a quote I keep returning to whenever this topic comes up. Rob Pike, one of Go's creators,...
Dev.to | Mar 11, 2026 | Shrestha Pandey
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Concurrency and parallelism can be done using threads. This is what makes concurrency in JavaScript code possible. You cannot have multiple threads of execution running Python code at the same time in the CPython interpreter because of the GIL.
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