People have been writing async apps in Python since 1995 (Medusa); Twisted was first published around 2001. It's not like async programming is new to Python.
Sorry I didn't say it correctly, I meant that it seems the renewed interest in async is stemming from watching Node.js get all the attention.
I have been using Twisted for 5 years full time and have also used eventlet and gevent. From talking to others, I have found few who enjoyed or loved Twisted. It was pretty much the only sane way to do concurrent, performant IO for a while. But then when green thread approach came about, I had never looked back.
All was well. Then one day Node.js showed up, and it seems it has started to eat Python's lunch -- fast, scripted development on the server side, with some reasonable concurrency. And it was faster too.
Python devs looked at it and couldn't believe their eyes. And I speculate many have concluded it was because everyone was in love with a callback based async IO paradigm. So that's my guess why we are seeing this proposal.
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People have been writing async apps in Python since 1995 (Medusa); Twisted was first published around 2001. It's not like async programming is new to Python.
Sorry I didn't say it correctly, I meant that it seems the renewed interest in async is stemming from watching Node.js get all the attention.
I have been using Twisted for 5 years full time and have also used eventlet and gevent. From talking to others, I have found few who enjoyed or loved Twisted. It was pretty much the only sane way to do concurrent, performant IO for a while. But then when green thread approach came about, I had never looked back.
All was well. Then one day Node.js showed up, and it seems it has started to eat Python's lunch -- fast, scripted development on the server side, with some reasonable concurrency. And it was faster too.
Python devs looked at it and couldn't believe their eyes. And I speculate many have concluded it was because everyone was in love with a callback based async IO paradigm. So that's my guess why we are seeing this proposal.