New JS library brings real shared-memory multithreading to JavaScript, no message passing

Vjeux · x · 2026-09-12

Developer vanilagy is building a new JavaScript library enabling native shared-memory multithreading. Inspired by what's possible with Zig in WASM, the demo shows the main thread and a worker cooperatively incrementing a counter: the state object is truly shared between threads, with no messages exchanged after the initial handshake. Vjeux amplified the project.

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