[codethief]

> In order for async to be popular it needs to be the default way of writing python. Right now its an after thought for writing “high performance” python.

Might this have to do with the fact that the (lack of) performance of asyncio is exactly the issue here?

I remember reading a blog post by zzzeek (the SQLAlchemy author who's also participating in our discussion here) about precisely this issue a while ago. Not sure but it might have been this one:

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