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Twisted is a widely used and well-understood framework that continues to work well and to be a major consideration-worthy option even in the days of modern Pyth
by mlthoughts2018 7y ago
Twisted is a widely used and well-understood framework that continues to work well and to be a major consideration-worthy option even in the days of modern Python 3 asyncio.
I can’t say whether the Twisted consultant’s advice was good or bad re: business needs, but your comment seems very wrong regardless. A solution built on Twisted would be nearly the opposite of something no one understands, and there would be big communities to go to for help, and you wouldn’t even have too much vendor lock-in since many frameworks that are competitors to Twisted could be used with minimal code changes.
- StefanKarpinski 7y agoYou’re missing the point. At a Python shop, using Twisted would have been a fine choice. Adding a completely unnecessary Python layer at a PHP shop was not helpful. Yes, there exist people in the world who know Twisted, but they do not tend to work at a place where everything is written in PHP. Adding a centralized choke point and extra network hops to reduce latency was a bad technical strategy, and adding a layer in a language that the existing engineering team didn’t know was also a bad idea.