I 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

I 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.