Every programmer comes across Multithreading and for some reason, it has been considered hard to understand. Well, it's not. In this blog, we will go through some basics of multithreading and in the process will try to understand why it is such an important topic in software development.
A program can have multiple processes and Multithreading allows us to run these multiple processing units concurrently. Our programs by default run on a Single thread also known as the main thread. Multithreading is useful because: