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Async is overengineered and bolted on. If you must use Python, I'd still recommend Twisted, which is more accessible. Otherwise, of course use Go, Elixir, etc.
by landersg 4y ago
Async is overengineered and bolted on. If you must use Python, I'd still recommend Twisted, which is more accessible. Otherwise, of course use Go, Elixir, etc. in the first place.
- ogogmad 4y agoI don't know. It seems to me Elixir requires a new and rather restrictive programming paradigm. For me, that's even worse than being overengineered.
- throwamon 4y ago> new Erlang has been around since what, the 80s? Elixir is "just" Erlang with a different face and extra features. > restrictive which is? Functional programming? Immutability? Interestingly, Erlang is often called a "true" object-oriented language thanks to its actor model. It's incredibly powerful and flexible, pretty much the opposite of restrictive. Just for a simple example, you can inspect, debug and modify your program while it's running. From your comment it just seems you're not familiar with it.
- bsenftner 4y agoIt reminds me of the cooperative multitasking used by the original Mac OS.
- throwamon 4y agoPromising contenders include algebraic effects in OCaml and JVM's Project Loom.
- kortex 4y agoI find Twisted less accessible and more opaque than async. It's also more "bolted on" in that it's an entirely separate library/framework outside the standard lib. Async might technically be bolted on, but no worse than async in most languages which weren't designed de novo for async (eg go/elixir).