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This is ridiculous. I love python, but it has no language support for an event loop, and if you put it in a browser, everything would have to be done in an event loop. It'd be ugly.

Javascript excels at evented programming. Use the right tool for the job.

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I was just going to comment that at least Python has yield (generators) which helps to avoid callback spaghetti¹, but Javascript seems to have got it too in 1.7².

[1] http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/gen.html

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7#Gener...

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