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I agree that gevent is a hack. however goroutines correspond to greenlets rather than gevent. You could write clean asynchronous io libraries in python using just greenlets and then it's not a hack.

I wonder if dropbox evaluated this option or just rejected python outright.

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True, but the API for pure Greenlets is a bit ugly.

In Go, the API for goroutines and channels is superb, concise, and clear.

For me, the negative traits of Go outweigh the positive, but I really wish other languages would adapt some of its concurrency constructs as native language features.

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