[fastball]

asyncio is still single-threaded due to the GIL.

[ikinsey]

While not ideal, this can be mitigated with multiprocessing. Python asyncio exposes interfaces for interacting with multiple processes [1].

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asy...

[siekmanj]

True, but it's not trying to be multi-threaded, just concurrent.