Now we're about to standardize thread-shared memory for EcmaScript( https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem). But how about the thread itself?
For this topic, I don't think we should develop another thread spec for ES as we already have a nice one - WebWorker. This spec allows multithreading in web client and it's well-adopted on most modern browsers. So all we need to do is just care some web-specific points of the api. Fortunately it's already `new Worker()` not `new WebWorker()` and not so many points should be fixed for it. For the case to import web spec to ES spec, there's already a case like this - Typed Array. It's originally standardized in Chronos group as a part of WebGL spec, and adopted to ES later. The spec I'm mentioning here is html5 apis including WebWorker, MessageChannel, Structured Clone Algorithm, Transferable Object. Sounds nice, isn't it?
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