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> I like `gevent` but I think it may have been too hacky of a solution to be incorporated to the main runtime gevent's monkey-patching might be hacky, but an o
by pansa2 1y ago
> I like `gevent` but I think it may have been too hacky of a solution to be incorporated to the main runtime
gevent's monkey-patching might be hacky, but an official implementation of stackful coroutines (similar to Lua's) need not have been.
Instead, stackless coroutines were chosen - maybe on merit, but also maybe because C#'s async/await keywords were in-vogue at the time and Python copied them.
- dontlaugh 1y agoStackless Python has existed for a long time. It’s “stackful” according to your definition, the term they refer to is the C stack.