Is console.log atomic?

Question

The print statement in Python is not thread-safe. Is it safe to use console.log in Node.js concurrently?

If so, then is it also interleave-safe? That is, if multiple (even hundreds) of callbacks write to the console, can I be sure that the output won't be clobbered or interleaved?

Looking at the source code, it seems that Node.js queues concurrent attempts to write to a stream (here). On the other hand, console.log's substitution flags come from printf(3). If console.log wraps around printf, then that can interleave output on POSIX machines (as shown here).

Please show me where the async ._write(chunk, encoding, cb) is implemented inside Node.js in your response to this question.

EDIT: If it is fine to write to a stream concurrently, then why does this npm package exist?

Answer 1

Everything in node.js is basically "atomic". That's because node.js is single threaded - no code can ever be interrupted.

Answer 2

The events loop of nodejs is single thread, but all the async calls of nodejs are multi-threaded, it use libuv under the hood, libuv is library that use multi threads.

link: https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/what-you-should-know-to-really-understand-the-node-js-event-loop-and-its-metrics-c4907b19da4c