[ikinsey]

I love asyncio! It's a very well put together library. It provides great interfaces to manage event loops, io, and some basic networking. It gives you a lot of freedom to design asynchronous systems as you see fit.

However, batteries are not included. For example, it provides no HTTP client/server. It doesn't interop with any synchronous IO tools in the standard library either, making asyncio a very insular environment.

For the majority of problems, Go or Node.js may be better options. They have much more mature environments for managing asynchrony.

[1337shadow]

It depends how you see it https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

[ikinsey]

This is exactly why Go is a better option for async use cases.

[int_19h]

Until you need to do async FFI. Callbacks and the async/await syntactic sugar on top of them compose nicely across language boundaries. But green threads are VM-specific.

[notpushkin]

It does indeed, but personally, I believe with async/await the main pain point of this post (callback hell) is essentially gone.