The Incredible Growth of Python (stackoverflow.blog)

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:14 am, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>:
> 
>> In contrast, every sample I've seen of the async library comes
>> across as "magic happens here -- at some point in time".
> 
> That magic can be learned, in principle. I'm afraid few programmers will
> be willing/able to get over the hump, and there are a number of tricky
> aspects to be extra careful about.

The huge popularity of asynchronous routines in the Javascript and Node.JS
community is evidence that it won't be "few programmers" but a whole lot of
them.



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Steve
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