> I'm utterly convinced that the only compelling reason for async is to avoid the per-thread stack memory allocation of 8MB per thread I needed to write an int

> I'm utterly convinced that the only compelling reason for async is to avoid the per-thread stack memory allocation of 8MB per thread I needed to write an interface to a SSE API (tldr: long running socket connection with occasional message arriving as content) There simply was no way to poll a http connection (e.g. requests) if it had new data. It would block no matter what. So I would have to start writing threaded code, or just use asyncio which seemed much more ergonomic.