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		piterrro on Jan 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Node.js race conditions Nodejs doesn't have synchronization primitives, just because you use Promise and assign it to variable "mutex" doesn't make it any more real

emteycz on Jan 25, 2021 [–]

What do you think is the real thing? It's also a value in a memory cell.

aaomidi on Jan 25, 2021 | [–]

Yup :)

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/sync/mutex.go

You can easily see what Go does here. It's not magic.

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