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Understanding Concurrency, Parallelism and JS

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Up until now, I was not aware that concurrency and parallelism were actually different things since they are often used interchangeably by some. I just learned that this is not the case while reading Chapter 9 of the book “Clojure for the Brave and True.” This made me want to learn more about concepts related to concurrency and parallelism, especially concerning the programming language I know best: JavaScript. So this essay is basically a collection of notes I made during this learning process.

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