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by gpderetta 574 days ago
> would require small revolution that might happen at some point.

or python could have blessed gevent and done away with all the nonsense.

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I hope that someone does an oral history of why gevent wasn't seen as the solution here. The existence of models like Twisted, and a general idea that yields to an event thread should be explicit in some way, I think caused the exact kind of fracturing of the ecosystem that everyone was trying to avoid. "Everyone will write async code" simply didn't happen in practice.
So many production problems that we never seen in development comes in and no way to debug
You had never tried gevent in production then. As soon as workload and concurrency increases python programs with gevent or gevent based drivers, especially monkey patches causes unexpected crashes out of the blue, no way to debug, no error message,Memory leaks and whole slew of nightmares