The underlying model for all Python Web apps -- WSGI -- is CGI-like. But the actual deployment of WSGI almost always involves a long-running process or processe

The underlying model for all Python Web apps -- WSGI -- is CGI-like. But the actual deployment of WSGI almost always involves a long-running process or processes, which keep the application code in memory and then expose the appropriate WSGI API to whatever Web server you're using. Switching that from "expose WSGI API" to "expose ASGI API" gets you Channels :)