[rich_sasha]

Python is surprisingly bad at parallelism, for a data or framing workhorse.

What TFA doesn't say is that process pools are quite fragile, certainly on Mac and Windows, but Linux also. They rely on pickling which is also fragile.

That said, asyncio works surprisingly well if what you want is non-blocking execution and are happy with 1 cpu. But no parallel speed up.

[rmbyrro]

After learning clojure, I found python's approach to concurrency terrible at best. Clojure is extremely easy to understand. It has basically three solutions, each for clear and defined use cases. It's much easier to judge what you should implement given a particular problem and how to do it.

I wish Python had similar solutions.