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Microtasks: Why Promises Run First

This is the third article in a series on how JavaScript actually runs. You can read the full series here or on my website. In the last article, we established that: JavaScript execution cannot be interrupted. Once a macrotask starts, nothing cuts in. Only after it completes does the runtime select t

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