I really like that Tornado is a small, self-contained project. I can read through the whole codebase and understand it. Twisted is quite large nowadays http://

I really like that Tornado is a small, self-contained project. I can read through the whole codebase and understand it. Twisted is quite large nowadays http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted Compare it to Tornado source, which is ~30 Python files https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/tornado https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/tornado