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The Python async story appears to be a bit of a mess though. There was some discussion recently on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240125 http

• jodrellblank 10y ago
  And this discussion less recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12829759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12829759 "I don't understand Python 3 asyncio". Along with the comment somewhere in that thread by coleifer: "I've been a gevent user for a long time and Python's decision to "bless" twisted by adopting it's patterns was a watershed moment for me, and basically was the beginning of the end of my belief that I'd ever adopt Python 3. User jerf's comment that asyncio "more than [doubles] the complexity" is absolutely correct. Watch this video of Guido talking about tulip...or struggling to talk about tulip, rather. It's clear the dude is out of his depth and my god the recent changes to the language show that the inmates are now running the asylum... Seems like Python, in it's effort to chase the latest fads, is no longer the language I would endorse to someone new to programming. Whether you think that's a meaningful litmus test or not, the staggering amount of _crap_ that's infiltrated the language now completely flies in the face of the zen of python's statement that there should be one and preferably only one way of doing things. Fuck. I'm going to go code some lua now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1coLC-MUCJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1coLC-MUCJc "
  • Rapzid 10y ago
    They have managed to take the async/await pattern and make it as much fun as Perl POE.