传统上，JS是为简短、快速运行的代码而设计的。如果你需要进行重要的计算，你就需要在服务器上进行——让一个JS+HTML应用程序长时间运行在你的浏览器中做一些重要的事情是荒谬的。

Of course, now we have that. But, it'll take a bit for browsers to catch up - most of them have been designed around a single-threaded model, and changing that is not easy. Google Gears side-steps a lot of potential problems by requiring that background execution is isolated - no changing the DOM (since that's not thread-safe), no accessing objects created by the main thread (ditto). While restrictive, this will likely be the most practical design for the near future, both because it simplifies the design of the browser, and because it reduces the risk involved in allowing inexperienced JS coders mess around with threads...

@marcio:

为什么不使用Javascript实现多线程呢?程序员可以用他们拥有的工具做任何他们想做的事情。

So then, let's not give them tools that are so easy to misuse that every other website i open ends up crashing my browser. A naive implementation of this would bring you straight into the territory that caused MS so many headaches during IE7 development: add-on authors played fast and loose with the threading model, resulting in hidden bugs that became evident when object lifecycles changed on the primary thread. BAD. If you're writing multi-threaded ActiveX add-ons for IE, i guess it comes with the territory; doesn't mean it needs to go any further than that.

Node.js 10.5+支持工作线程作为实验特性(你可以使用——experimental-worker flag enabled): https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html

所以，规则是:

如果你需要做I/O绑定操作，那么使用内部机制(即callback/promise/async-await) 如果你需要做CPU绑定的操作，那么使用工作线程。

工作线程是长期存在的线程，这意味着生成一个后台线程，然后通过消息传递与它通信。

否则，如果需要使用匿名函数执行较重的CPU负载，则可以使用https://github.com/wilk/microjob，这是一个围绕工作线程构建的小型库。

据我所知，谷歌Chrome将有多线程javascript，所以这是一个“当前实现”的问题。

如果没有适当的语言支持线程同步，那么新的实现尝试线程同步就没有意义了。现有的复杂JS应用(例如任何使用ExtJS的应用)很可能会意外崩溃，但如果没有同步关键字或类似的东西，也很难甚至不可能编写正确运行的新程序。

你的意思是为什么语言不支持多线程，或者为什么浏览器中的JavaScript引擎不支持多线程?

第一个问题的答案是，浏览器中的JavaScript是在沙盒中运行的，以一种独立于机器/操作系统的方式运行，添加多线程支持会使语言变得复杂，并将语言与操作系统联系得太紧密。

传统上，JS是为简短、快速运行的代码而设计的。如果你需要进行重要的计算，你就需要在服务器上进行——让一个JS+HTML应用程序长时间运行在你的浏览器中做一些重要的事情是荒谬的。

Of course, now we have that. But, it'll take a bit for browsers to catch up - most of them have been designed around a single-threaded model, and changing that is not easy. Google Gears side-steps a lot of potential problems by requiring that background execution is isolated - no changing the DOM (since that's not thread-safe), no accessing objects created by the main thread (ditto). While restrictive, this will likely be the most practical design for the near future, both because it simplifies the design of the browser, and because it reduces the risk involved in allowing inexperienced JS coders mess around with threads...

@marcio:

为什么不使用Javascript实现多线程呢?程序员可以用他们拥有的工具做任何他们想做的事情。

So then, let's not give them tools that are so easy to misuse that every other website i open ends up crashing my browser. A naive implementation of this would bring you straight into the territory that caused MS so many headaches during IE7 development: add-on authors played fast and loose with the threading model, resulting in hidden bugs that became evident when object lifecycles changed on the primary thread. BAD. If you're writing multi-threaded ActiveX add-ons for IE, i guess it comes with the territory; doesn't mean it needs to go any further than that.