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by fzzzy 4838 days ago
Well... There actually are a completely parallel set of IO libraries, it just happens that the interface can be identical to the existing blocking interfaces because of the greenlet stack slicing magic... So it only appears like there are not a completely parallel set of IO libraries.

But that's just a nitpick.

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> So it only appears like there are not a completely parallel set of IO libraries.

Right on. That's the great part -- both a simple way to program and re usability of libraries.

So far, I see library ecosystem fragmentation as the biggest issue of all and nobody seems to want to talk to it.

Academically all the yields and co-routines look so cool, in practice when you need 5 libraries to help with some task, and now you have to re-write them -- not so cool.