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by karanlyons 2859 days ago
Yes, and it is...not great. It's generally fine as far as the language goes (considering it's a retrofit), but the builtin asyncio library is not the way to go in my opinion. trio is far better for just aping a lot of the Erlang way of things.

But even then it's hard to debug, or work out ideas in the REPL, testing is a bit more complex than it should have to be, etc. There are probably better languages to reach for (I'd love to see rust firm up a one true way of async).
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adamcharnock 2859 days ago
FWIW, I was at a talk by an asyncio core developer at EuroPython and he said they are looking very closely at how to improve the asyncio API in upcoming 3.8/3.9 releases. In particular, looking at good ideas they can pull in from libraries such as trio.

Maybe Python 4 will mark a maturing of asyncio?

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