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> In new code I try to use threads, but certain things like yield which rely on async are simply too common and useful to stop using.

Huh? I python you have to choose either threads or asynchronous/await? Why not combine both of them? I am so confused. C# allows for both to be combined quite naturally. And JavaScript as well allows for workers with async/await.

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What do you mean? Async/await uses threads

I was trying to make sense of this sentence of the original commenter: "In new code I try to use threads, but certain things like yield which rely on async are simply too common and useful to stop using."

Seems to suggest that threads and yield/async were mutually exclusive. I misunderstood. I will move on.

To use async await you have to execute the code in a run loop.

... and you can push CPU-intensive stuff off to a thread-executor to avoid blocking the async run-loop

They aren't mutually exclusive, but are two basically independent features. The way you would code for one and the other is completely different.

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