I'm in the same boat, but there do seem to be alternatives which are popping up. The problem is that there is a big difference between the Twisted way of doing

I'm in the same boat, but there do seem to be alternatives which are popping up. The problem is that there is a big difference between the Twisted way of doing things (deferreds), and everything else. Once you start writing code in a twisted way it's hard to port it to anything else.