Since it's polling for I/O events and doesn't use threads [1], it does indeed sound like a plausible alternative for doing non-blocking I/O. I think I'm going

Since it's polling for I/O events and doesn't use threads [1], it does indeed sound like a plausible alternative for doing non-blocking I/O. I think I'm going to take a stab at using it, since asyncio doesn't have a mature ecosystem around it anyway. [1] http://curio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#under-the-covers http://curio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#under-the-c...