[Async-sig] Trio: async I/O for humans and snake people

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Wed Mar 15 21:21:50 EDT 2017


On Mar 13, 2017 11:04, "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> wrote:

I assume the name is a reference to the fact that there's now a three-way
competition for ultimate async library? :)


Eh, there's at least twisted and gevent they it's not really even a
competitor to.

I came up with some justification for the name about how something like
https://youtu.be/1U1wqOzjR94 is a great example of elegantly coordinated
concurrency, but of course the real reason is that it's a 4 letter word
ending in "io" that wasn't already taken on pypi :-)


Great work, BTW!


Thanks!

-n
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