[sandGorgon]

it would be superb if something like this can be built on the newer ASGI based frameworks - Starlette or Fastapi (which is built on Starlette).

They are among the fastest python frameworks according to techempower benchmarks, have automatically included type checking and are async.

[necovek]

Indeed, it's surprising that someone is building today a framework in Python that is not async, when it's pretty easy to do so (compared to eg. the twisted days, but even to pre3.6 days).

[mixmastamyk]

Async is not helpful for most projects and complicates the rest.

[zedpm]

That's an odd assertion. What kind of things do you think most projects do? I'd say most projects have network IO happening (querying databases, storing data to e.g. S3, communicating with other web services), in which case async absolutely is helpful and far more performant.

[mixmastamyk]

https://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-a...

[zedpm]

That's nearly 5 years old now, so even the bits of that which are backed up with actual data aren't of much use. Benchmarks of asyncio in python 3.4.1 are going to be wildly different than in later versions. I understand the argument he's trying to make about db access and performance, but modern benchmarks seem to disprove his argument, e.g. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=... and https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=... .

[mixmastamyk]

Not sure what I’m looking for.

[caro_douglos]

While async is a huge plus of fast api I’ve found the documentation creation to be the most helpful. My 2c.