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Asyncio detractors have been drowned in a stream of assurances that, really, it's not that bad.

Obviously it is, or this wouldn't be post #800 that promises to finally make asyncio clear to newcomers.

Twisted sucks. It was a joke. Now it's been tacitly blessed to the point you can sprinkle the `async` keyword all over the place. Good luck. I hope you don't forget about any spots.

I truly think part of the reason Guido left is because he couldn't defend this shit.

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Yes Twisted had its draw backs but that was well over 15 years ago. Async io is literally like a couple keywords and a library with a few classes you will use for everything. No more callback/errback chaining or function decorators every single method for inline callbacks.

No one in these comments are offering any palatable alternatives. A compiled language with no OO is not a replacement for Python's Asyncio.

Not to stoke the flame, but I never used Twisted, where did it fail?

Bad docs.

Everything else about it is solid as hell.

Pathlib comes from Twisted IIRC.

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