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You might be missing the point. Had FriendFeed worked on improving Twisted and it's documentation to make it easier to use, they would have achieved what they n
by waleedka 17y ago
You might be missing the point. Had FriendFeed worked on improving Twisted and it's documentation to make it easier to use, they would have achieved what they needed in less time and would have avoided fragmenting the resources of the open source community among two projects.
- crad 17y agoI do get that point, but to that end, perhaps they made their decision, in part, based upon the same type of thought process. This is progress, and as a result, the Twisted people, if they're listening, have gotten valuable feedback out of the process from many people other than myself as a result. There has also been much more about Twisted on places like Hacker News than I've seen, relatively speaking. With Dustin porting the meat of Tornado on top of Twisted's IO handler, there is much more interesting things to come out of it all. It is in no way a negative thing for Twisted for there to be competition in an area of cross-over such as this.
- mbrubeck 17y agoI think you underestimate the effort it would take to write concise, accurate documentation for a project the size of twisted. I bet it took far less time to write the 5000 lines of code in Tornado than it would to rewrite the documentation for Twisted and its web modules, and get that accepted and integrated upstream. And it wouldn't fix the fact that Twisted has all sorts of functionality that Tornado developers don't need, aren't interested in documenting, and that web developers would have to either avoid or wade through.