[ZeroCool2u]

ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor were exactly what I was waiting for someone to mention. I was doing some Python as a systems architect at my previous position and now as a full time data scientist, my life has pretty much been consumed by Python. Unsurprisingly, a lot of my initial work is retrieving and cleaning very large volumes of data, the later usually being I/O bound and the former being CPU bound and frankly myself and a lot of my team immediately default to using both ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor respectively, because of how simple and performant they are. Perhaps asyncio is more familiar terminology to people coming from Web Dev, so that's why they're gravitating towards it, but there are few times when I find myself needing that particular tooling outside of Web Dev anyways.