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As usual, a simple "this versus that" comparison is only useful as an intellectual exercise. Tornado is a web framework, in many ways closer to Django than Twi
by wehriam 17y ago
As usual, a simple "this versus that" comparison is only useful as an intellectual exercise.
Tornado is a web framework, in many ways closer to Django than Twisted. Beyond that the underlying approaches are different - Tornado does not use deferreds.
There are a number of great projects that use Twisted. Soon many new projects will use Tornado. But the frameworks' respective documentation does not tell the story.
- masklinn 17y ago> Tornado is a web framework Not really. It's the combination of an asynchronous HTTP server and an optional web framework. And work is being done [to add WSGI support](http://github.com/facebook/tornado/commit/8ca616088cfb26ff19fcc6f359d654fef905b8da http://github.com/facebook/tornado/commit/8ca616088cfb26ff19...) so other frameworks can be plugged into the server. At its core, Tornado is a server not a framework.
- wehriam 17y agoThe Tornado front page refers to itself as a framework six times, but we're splitting hairs. Twisted is, at least for now, more general purpose. Can't wait to see where Tornado goes though.