# Missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for a clean, beautiful API for multithreading in JavaScript. Caveat: move() behaves differently depending on the data type passed to it.

## Why people recommend it

- Beautiful, clean API design (2 comments): "this is a very beautiful API!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175564)) "beautiful api nicely made" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175710))
- Promising, worth a look (2 comments): "This looks great. If it works as well as the readme suggests" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169408)) "This seems very much worth a look!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169178))

## What people warn about

- move() behaves differently by data type (1 comments): "move() doing different things depending on the type of data you pass to it feels like a foot-gun" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169911))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript", https://hackerapproved.com/p/missing-standard-library-for-multithreading-in-javascript/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).